The eminent Polish-American psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch was born in 1884 in Przemyśl (today situated on the Polish-Ukrainian border, then part of Austria-Hungary) and died in 1982 in Cambridge, MA. She was the longest-living disciple of Sigmund Freud and one of the most fascinating figures among the entire cohort of Central European Jewish refugees who significantly impacted the postwar American intellectual landscape. As the author of the bestselling The Psychology of Women (1944–1945), she was counted among the dozen leading American psychoanalysts during the Hartmann era. She was also the most controversial figure: in the 1970s, this pioneer of women’s emancipation, one of the first female students at the University of Vienna, and the first psychoanalyst who devoted herself entirely to the field of female psychology became a target of attack by second-wave feminists who accused her of blind loyalty to Freud’s supposedly misogynistic theories. This lecture, based on archival research from both sides of the Atlantic, will outline how the century-spanning life of Helene Deutsch offers a unique feminist perspective on the transnational social and cultural history of psychoanalysis.

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