Iki Freud

Iki Freud (b. 1937), a distant relative of Sigmund Freud, was born in Amsterdam and trained as a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst.

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Freud was associated with the child psychiatry department of the University of Amsterdam and has a private practice in Amsterdam. In 1977 she earned her doctorate on sadomasochism in the work of Proust and Sigmund Freud. Men and Mothers (2007) is a classic work of psychoanalysis filling a gap left by Freud. Earlier titles include Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship (2010).

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Men and Mothers - The LIfe-Long Struggle of Sons and Mothers

A book for and about sons but also for the mothers of those sons. Where Sigmund Freud once described the way men interacted with their fathers, Iki Freud turns her gaze to their mothers. Sons can also develop a symbiotic bond with their female parent. This leads to identification with the mother instead of the father and is often correlated with either homosexuality, or sexual perversion – which is problematic when it becomes compulsive and exclusive.

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