![]() The two half-brothers and the young boy emigrated to Manchester at the end of Freud's third year, stimulating in him early thoughts of moving to England himself, which he was eventually to do some eighty years later. Freud remarked, in The Interpretation of Dreams, that his characteristic warm friendships as well as his enmities with contemporaries went back to this early relationship ( Freud, Interpretation, 483). ![]() This nephew, John, was Freud's closest child companion and rival. ![]() Freud's position in the family was unusual in that he also had two grown-up half-brothers from his father's first marriage, one of whom had a young son, so that Freud was born an uncle. There followed two more boys, one of whom died at six months, and five girls, whose arrival stirred up intense jealousy in Freud. ![]() His mother was an attractive and strong-minded woman and by all accounts her love for Sigmund, the first-born of her eight children, was boundless. His father, at one point registered as a wool merchant, made what must have been a somewhat precarious living through trade of various kinds. The Freud family occupied one large room on the first floor of a house owned by a blacksmith. ![]()
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