Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna

Winner of the Radomír Luža Prize, German Studies Association and The American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, 2024

Chosen for the George L. Mosse Annual Lecture in the History of Gender and Sexuality, 2024

This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’s least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.

Scholars of sexuality often focus on Freud’s writings on male homosexuality, disregarding his view...