Anna Freud’s loom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rye Dag Holmboe (History of Art, University of East Anglia, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 932-949 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2021.1952874 |
| PMID | 34586020 |
| OpenAlex | W3203158368 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Anna Freud's Loom' examines Anna Freud's relationship to weaving. Adopting a form of weaverly thinking, I begin by offering an account of Anna Freud's work at the loom as recollected by her friend and colleague Manna Friedmann. I go on to describe how a metaphorics connected to weaving is often employed in psychoanalytic literature, especially in the writings of Sigmund Freud, which I situate in relationship to the Freud family's historical and personal relationship to textiles. The article then examines Anna Freud's use of weaving as a therapeutic tool and as a process akin to the work of mourning. For Anna Freud, weaving was, I suggest, a kind of grief-work
LOOM · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Weaving · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Engineering · Philosophy · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |