Background
She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody, Galicia, now in Ukraine, and grew up in Odessa.
She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody, Galicia, now in Ukraine, and grew up in Odessa.
Amalia Freud died in Vienna at the age of 95 from tuberculosis. Relationship with eldest son Late in life he would term the mother-son relationship "the most perfect, the most free from ambivalence of all human relationships. His tendency to split off and repudiate hostile elements in the relationship would be repeated with significant figures in his life such as his fiancee and Wilhelm Fliess.
