With her access to many differet cultures, she became one of the most important diplomats in eighteen-century North America, moving among the worlds of the British, Americans, and American Indians. Nanyehi later married Irish trader Bryant Ward and took the anglicized name Nancy. She eventually became the only female voting member of the Cherokee General Council. She stood out at an early age: At 17, she led her tribe to victory against the Creeks. In light of his story, we also look at the limits of the human brain when faced with true horror and true evil, which pace Freud, is a psychoanalytic study in and of itself.Ī Cherokee woman named Nanyehi, which means “One Who Goes About” was born in the 1730s in modern-day Tennessee. I’m speaking today with Andrew Nagorski, author of “Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.” We look at the remarkable collection of people – Freud’s personal physician, Napoleon’s great-grandniece, the heiress to the Tiffany fortune, his daughter Anna, an American ambassador, and his English-language translator – who succeeded in coaxing Freud to safety. They began a coordinated effort to persuade Freud to leave his cherished Vienna and emigrate to England. Several prominent people close to Freud, however, knew better. When the Germans invaded in 1938, Freud was still in deep denial. Today we are looking at Freud’s own neuroses, against the backdrop of Nazi conquest of Austria. By then, it had already threatened his family – and he almost didn’t realize the very real danger until it was too late. Only towards the end of his life, as warning signs of hatred and murder brewed in his native Austria, did he recognize the terrifyingly familiar prejudice. As a Jew, Freud had long been met with anti-Semitism but as an atheist, he took it less personally than others, and these encounters rarely struck a nerve. But what is strange is that for Freud, he arguably had problems identifying the uncanny in his own life.įreud’s ethnicity and beliefs made him an outsider in early 20th century Europe. He laid the foundations of understanding the subconscious and how our mind tries to protect us in ways we don’t understand. “The ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar.” This is a quote from Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychanalysis.
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