Emma Freud Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator. Emma Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, the ex-husband of Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's daughter. Painter Lucian Freud was her uncle. Her father's family were Jewish refugees. Freud was educated in London at the all-female Queen's College school and is an alumna of Royal Holloway College. In
Sigmund Freud the beginning of his psychoanalytic investigation but then superseded but never finally discarded. These were the concept of the Actualneurosis and a theory of anxiety based upon the idea of dammed-up libido. In Freud's original view, what really happened to a person (the "actual") determined the resulting neurotic disposition. Freud applied that idea both to infants and to adults. In the former case, seductions were sought as the causes of later neuroses and in the latter incomplete sexual release. Unlike Freud, Reich retained the idea that actual experience, especially sexual experience, was of key significance. By the 1920s, Reich had