Psychobiography in the Shadow of My Absent Grandpa Nissim

Meaningful activities, in work or play, are the sublimation of early childhood traumas and conflicts, and my involvement in psychobiography has certainly been a meaningful activity for me. In this article, I will introduce a few key experiences in my early life and then describe how they came together in the psychobiography I wrote on the life and work of W. Ernest Freud (1914-2008), Sigmund Freud’s oldest grandchild.