The death of the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud

Austrian academic and researcher, Sophia Freud, died on June 3, after a long scientific career in which she did not hesitate to oppose her late grandfather, Sigmund Freud, the distinguished psychologist.

According to the Washington Post, Sophie Freud passed away at the age of 93, in her home in the US state of Massachusetts.

The daughter of the late, Andrea Freud Lowenstein, said that her mother, who also holds American citizenship, died of complications from pancreatic cancer.
Sophie is the eldest son of Sigmund Freud, and was the last surviving granddaughter of the famous psychologist who revolutionized popular concepts about the human mind through the school of psychoanalysis during the last century.

Freud came up with theories about the conflict that occurs in the human psyche between the “ego” and the censorship known as the “super-ego”, and he also focused on factors such as dreams in revealing the innermost self.

Freud’s influence extended widely to other schools of psychoanalysis, and he had a prominent imprint in the field of literature through several fictional works that benefited from what he brought.
The late Sophie, who arrived as a refugee in the United States during World War II, spent decades studying social work at American universities.

Sophie Freud focused on providing psychological support, through a number of charitable and humanitarian initiatives, and said in previous statements that she was keen to discuss and scrutinize what her grandfather came with, because she is an independent researcher who has her own opinion.

In 2002, Sophie said that she showed great disbelief in her grandfather Freud’s theories, and gave an example of that, by saying that the girl is jealous of the boy because he has a genitalia, and she thinks that he is superior to her.

The late woman went so far as to describe her grandfather’s theory of this envy as “meaningless”, and likened his words to that of a three-year-old child.