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Emma Eckstein (1865–1924) was an Austrian author. She was "one of Sigmund Freud's most important patients and, for a short period of time around 1897, became a psychoanalyst herself". She has been described as "the first woman analyst", who became "both colleague and patient" for Freud.
Emma Eckstein was a Viennese woman who underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud between 1892 and 1893. She also became a psychoanalyst for a short time and published a book on sexual education of children.
Dec 16, 2015 · A historical article about a patient who suffered from a botched nose surgery by a quack doctor, Wilhelm Fliess, in the late nineteenth century. The article exposes the medical malpractice, negligence, sexism and cover-ups involved in the case.
May 26, 2016 · Emma Eckstein's circumcision trauma has been powerfully suppressed, denied, and dissociated from the history of the origins of psychoanalysis. Even though Freud did not categorize it as a trauma, he was deeply impacted by it in the period when he provided psychoanalysis with his foundation.
- Carlo Bonomi
- 2016
Sep 5, 2017 · The hidden history of Emma Eckstein, ideas about repressed childhood memories of sexual abuse, and nasogenital theories were just the beginning of the unraveling of Freud’s legacy. In the early 1970s, the so-called “Freud wars” — a virulent academic debate over Freud’s legitimacy — began with psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger ...
- Cody Delistraty
- Contributor
The author considers the medical rationale for Wilhelm Fliess’s operation on Emma Eckstein’s nose in February of 1895, and interprets the possible role that this played in Freud’s dream of Irma’s injection five months later.
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The author's main argument is that Emma likely endured female castration as a child and that she therefore experienced the surgery to her nose in 1895 as a retraumatization of her childhood trauma.
