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==The Vienna years==
Anna did not have a very close bond with her mother and had difficulties getting along with her [[sibling]]ssiblings, specifically with her sister Sophie Freud. Sophie, who was the prettiest child, represented a threat in the struggle for the affection of their father. Apart from this rivalry between the two sisters, Anna had some other difficulties growing up. Out of correspondence between father and daughter, it can be concluded today that Anna suffered from a [[clinical depression|depression]] which caused [[Eating disorder|eating disorders]]. The relationship between Anna and her father was different from the rest of her family, they were very close. She was a lively child with a reputation for mischief. [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] wrote to his friend [[Wilhelm Fliess]] in 1899: ''"Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness... "'', Sigmund was very proud of his youngest daughter.
Anna began school in 1901, later on Anna would say that she didn’t learn much in school but all the more from her father and his guests at home. This way she picked up languages as [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[German language|German]], [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]]. At the age of 15, she started reading her father’s work. At a young age she started to tell her father her dreams and he would publish them in his book Interpretation of Dreams. Anna finished her education at the Cottage Lyceum in Vienna in 1912. Suffering from a depression, she was very insecure about what to do in the future. Subsequently, she went to [[Italy]] to stay with her grandmother.
In 1914, she started teaching at her old school, the Cottage Lyceum. In 1918 her father started [[psychoanalysis]] on her and she became seriously involved with this new profession. Her analysis was completed in 1922 and thereupon she presented the paper ''"Beating Fantasies and daydreams"'' to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, subsequently becoming a member. In 1923 she began her own psychoanalytical practice with children and two years later she was teaching at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute on the technique of child analysis. From 1927 until 1934 she was the General Secretary of the [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] while she continued child analysis and seminars and conferences on the subject. In 1935 Anna became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute and in the following year she published her influential study of the "ways and means by which the ego wards off displeasure and anxiety", ''The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence''. It became a founding work of [[ego psychology]] and established Anna’s reputation as a pioneering theoretician.
