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Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud (née Nathansohn; 18 August 1835 – 12 September 1930) was the mother of Sigmund Freud. She was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to Jacob Nathanson and Sarah Wilenz and later grew up in Odesa, where her mother came from (both cities located in modern-day Ukraine). She was married to Jacob Freud.
Amalia Freud was the daughter of Jacob Nathansohn (1805–1865), great-grandson of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Bernstein, and Sara Wilenz born in Brody, then also part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and now also part of Ukraine.
Amalia appears to have been an anxious mother, if one considers as exemplary the precautions that Freud took to conceal from her his adolescent plans to travel to London, or her response to the 1873 cholera epidemic that raged in Vienna while she was staying in Roznau.
But there's really very little research into Freud's relationship with his mother (called 'Amalia' on her gravestone, but mostly called 'Amalie' in the family) when they were adults.
But there's really very little research into Freud's relationship with his mother (called 'Amalia' on her gravestone, but mostly called 'Amalie' in the family) when they were adults.
Freud's mother, Amalia, was possibly his father's third wife and twenty years his younger. Sigmund's half-brother, Emanuel, was older than his mother and had children of his own when Sigmund was born. Thus Sigmund was born an uncle -- a year younger than his first playmate, his nephew.
May 19, 2022 · Anna Freud, Freud’s daughter, said that her grandmother was ‘devoted to and proud of her [son], as Jewish mothers are’. The fact is that this mother, Amalia, a superstitious Galician who spoke mostly Yiddish, had predicted that her Sigmund, on whom she projected her dreams of greatness, would become a great man.
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