ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Hermine Hug-Hellmuth challenge to Sigmund Freud and his analysis of his daughter Anna Freud, who was effectively able to logically establish the field of the psychoanalysis of the child. Hermine Hug-Hellmuth thus provided a basis for separating the psychoanalysis of the child from the raising of children, and thus from the pedagogical bent it has always been prone to taking. In doing so, it endeavours to locate a part of the history which is missing from the usual accounts of the history of psychoanalysis of the child. The paper “Psychoanalysis of the child: the bastard child of psychoanalysis” takes up the questions, not in regard to the clinical history of any one analysand, but in relation to the history of the psychoanalysis of children itself. The transformational formula, like a mathematical formula, thus also affords a transformation, or even a de-formation, from Freud’s family romance into Jacques Lacan’s individual myth of the neurotic.
