ABSTRACT
The photo documentation of Sigmund Freud's family was haphazard. Apart from the uncertainty about the figure identified as Emanuel, this picture of the extended Freud family also includes two or three unidentified children. The picture could, therefore, have been taken around the time of Freud's last meeting with his half-brother, an unexpected visit of the eighty-year-old Emanuel to Vienna in May 1913. As for the visit he paid to Freud's specimen dream on the night of 23–24 June 1895, like his other unexpected appearances, that was a sort of joke. Freud's "revolutionary dream", he sees his debilitated, blind father enduring that very humiliation, and Emanuel also features in this dream narrative. When Freud visited Manchester in 1875, he was favourably impressed by the social standing of his relatives, but not by their wealth. Knowing his infant squabbles with Freud, seeing him later as a sharp British businessman, one can imagine friction between him and his possibly domineering father.
