ABSTRACT
Helene Deutsch increasingly shared in his political career; 1905 marked when the first general elections in Galicia were held, and then in 1907, the same year Helene chose to start medical school in Vienna, Herman Lieberman was elected as a deputy from Poland to the parliament in Vienna. The active love affair between Helene and Lieberman began, according to her, in 1906; she was by then twenty-two and he thirty-six. Helene’s father was a liberal, certainly no socialist; but he too was a lawyer, practicing in civil rather than criminal cases. Lieberman succeeded in awakening Helene politically as well as intellectually. She came to share his political life, and they both participated in the same ideology; the Polish social democratic party was their cause. Lieberman became Helene’s mentor, especially as she prepared to get the Abitur, the certificate which would allow her to study at almost any European university.
