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| | Anna Freud: Lost Girl |
 | | Anna's sado-masochistic, sister-jealous, Mama-pushing, Papa-pulling fantasy library has apparently been lost: the childishly-rendered torments of poor, pretty Sophie-child at the hands of Mama-Papa-Anna; the noble, long-suffering, androgenous youth of the "nice stories," taming the rage of his lordly captor by his submissiveness and resolve; and all the liminal, eliptic material shelved between them. |
 | | Anna's repertoire seems to have taken form and variety in the years after her appendectomy -- itself a cautionary tale in two chapters whose unwomaned older sister (Mathilde), deceitful Mama, shadowy Papa, invaded Anna must be read between the lines of the flanking volumes, the Beating Fantasies and the Nice Stories. |
 | | Freud’s own death makes itself known with diagnosis of his cancer of the jaw in 1924, even as he is struggling with grief over Sophie's and Heinerle's deaths and rationalizing Anna’s therapy into femininity theory, with its admonition to renounce the clitoris and desire for the love of care, the pleasure in duty. |
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