ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at some posthumous and little-known papers by Anna Freud, in order to offer some wider observations of his own on her virtues as a clinician and researcher in the field of child psychoanalysis. For Freud, child analysis was a “new development” of classical psychoanalysis. Assessing Freud’s psychoanalytic legacy, a paper by Anne-Marie Sandler focuses in particular on the concept of developmental disturbance. More generally, Freud’s developmental approach was to lead her, as is well-known, to a progressive outlining of the diagnostic profile, centred on the concept of development and lines of development. She remains unequivocally bound to a traditional view of transference that one might say is influenced by her transference in relation to her father. Assessing Anna Freud’s psychoanalytic legacy, a paper by Anne-Marie Sandler focuses in particular on the concept of developmental disturbance.
