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Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence

2025/1/23
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Marcy Thompson: 希尔弗丁挑战了母爱是天生的这一根深蒂固的观念，她的贡献具有前瞻性，至今仍具有意义。她的故事不仅仅是悲剧，更体现了她对女性健康和权利的贡献。 Eveline List: 我研究心理学和精神分析史，对希尔弗丁的研究始于偶然发现的档案材料。希尔弗丁是维也纳精神分析学会的第一位女性成员，她的论文《母爱的基础》挑战了当时的观点，并在学会中引起波澜。 Klara Nashkowska: 历史上常常忽略女性和少数群体，希尔弗丁就是一例。许多早期女性精神分析学家被历史遗忘，她们大多是犹太人，这与性别和反犹太主义有关。19世纪末，一些进步的犹太家庭开始重视女儿的教育，支持她们接受高等教育并成为独立的专业人士。 Candice Dumas: 希尔弗丁对医学和精神分析领域做出了重大贡献，并为女性争取权利。她深入了解患者的心理和社会状况，这在当时非常罕见。她对母性的看法具有突破性意义，挑战了传统观念。即使在今天，女性对母性的感受仍然是一个禁忌话题。 Rosemary Balsam: 当时存在对女性的认知能力的偏见，认为女性不适合成为医生和精神分析学家。一些人认为女性获得权力后会滥用权力。希尔弗丁的沉默是长期以来男性权力结构的结果。 Marcy Thompson: 希尔弗丁挑战了母爱是天生的这一根深蒂固的观念，她的贡献具有前瞻性，至今仍具有意义。她的故事不仅仅是悲剧，更体现了她对女性健康和权利的贡献。

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This chapter introduces Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician, highlighting her significant achievements and the historical context surrounding her life. It also introduces the podcast's hosts and other key researchers involved in uncovering Hilferding's story.
  • Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman to earn a medical degree at the University of Vienna and the first woman to join Sigmund Freud's Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
  • Her groundbreaking work on maternal instinct challenged established norms and remains relevant today.
  • Hilferding's story, like many brilliant women's, was largely overlooked until recently, thanks to the work of historians and psychoanalysts.

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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day,) we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. She was the first woman to earn a medical degree at the University of Vienna and the first woman to join Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. In her paper *On the Basis of Mother Love, *presented to the society in 1911, she argued that the maternal instinct is not innate but can develop after birth, a theory Freud and the rest of her male colleagues rejected. Margarethe soon left the society and devoted much of her life to treating women in working class neighborhoods and advocating for their reproductive health. Her theory of maternal instinct remains controversial even today.

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