Flutterby™! : RIP Sophie Freud

Sophie Freud, professor who challenged her grandfather’s doctrine, dies at 97 — The last surviving grandchild of Sigmund Freud described her grandfather as one of the ‘false prophets of the 20th century’

“I’m very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis,” she told the Boston Globe in 2002. “I think it’s such a narcissistic indulgence that I cannot believe in it.”

She dismissed “penis envy,” a developmental stage that Sigmund Freud attributed to young girls, as “nonsense” and the ideas of a “3-year-old boy.”

Of her grandfather’s theory of the parent-child dynamic, she dryly remarked, “I have some questions about this Oedipal relationship.”