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Freud and Fantasy
Freud and Fantasy
Was Sigmund Freud’s Daughter a Maladaptive Daydreamer?
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Freud and Fantasy
Was Sigmund Freud’s Daughter a Maladaptive Daydreamer?
Freud wrote early on about the role of fantasy in creative writing, and “florid” daydreaming is a significant element in several of Freud’s most influentical cases. His daughter Anna followed eagerly in his professional footsteps… but what if Anna Freud, one of the founding figures of psychoanalysis, had a hidden psychological struggle of her own? You may be surprised to discover that Freud’s own daughter could have been identified as a Maladaptive Daydreamer by current diagnostic standards.
Join us as we explore how Anna Freud masked her own experience of maladaptive daydreaming as a clinical case and explored it to understand her own fantasy experience… and to challenge her idolized father’s interpretation. This eye-opening webinar dives into fantasy, “phantasy,” and the psychological roots of immersive daydreaming, exploring what psychoanalytic theory might have to say about the unconscious meaning of immersive and maladaptive fantasy.
🎤 Speaker: Susan Meindl MA
📅 Date: 28/08/2025
⏰ Time: 2 PM EST / 7 PM GMT
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Susan Meindl is a clinical psychologist and pscyhoanalyst in private practice in Montreal, Canada. She is a member of the Order of Pscyhologists in Quebec, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is an active board member and seminar facilitator with the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal. She has lectured and created CE trainings in areas of special interest including Maladaptive Daydreaming, “The Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP, Aron 1995), “mature empathy,” and psychological fairytale interpretation.
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