ABSTRACT
The psychoanalysis of children was, from the outset, a domain of female analysts, being designated as such by Freud himself. Such women, moreover, were generally non-medical analysts, for no less a reason than by virtue of the fact that women were barred from studying medicine at the time. Hug-Hellmuth's life and work were marked by questions of legitimacy: she never revealed the illegitimacy of her half-sister, offspring of the father's previous liaison. Hug-Hellmuth had a falling out with her half-sister who later died prematurely. In Hug-Hellmuth's opinion, from the outset parents often have a time limit in their minds and break off the treatment halfway through, despite this resulting in a considerable waste of time, trouble and money. Porge, in his examination of Freud's correspondence with Fliess, puts forward that the conflation of these two entities is something that marks the very beginnings of psychoanalysis through Freud's transference to Fliess.
