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THE DEATH OF ANNA FREUD IN OCTOBER, 1982 WAS MORE than the loss of an individual. The memorial celebrations in her honor in cities across the world and in diverse publications pay tribute to the loss of a universal symbol. It is as W. H. Auden said of Freud:
To us he is no more a person now
but a whole climate of opinion.
Anna Freud extended the revolutionary change in viewing the inner life of man started by her father for another generation. Other immortals in intellectual history, as Copernicus, Darwin, or Einstein, had only the length of their life-spans to develop and establish their contributions to mankind. Sigmund Freud, through the lifework of his daughter, had two continuous lifetimes for his work to be implanted, tested, and absorbed.
Anna Freud, however, was not merely the conveyor of Freud's discoveries for four more decades after his death. She continued the original, not a copy. While consolidating and preserving what had gone before, she continued to break new ground, as had Freud, in method and content.
Freud, for example, did not allow seeming obstacles to his