Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Das Tagebuch eines jungen Mädchens
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love diaries, the history of psychology, and honest portraits of adolescence, with family tensions, crushes and sharp judgments of adults.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A Young Girl's Diary is the private journal of a girl growing up in Vienna, written from about the age of eleven to fourteen. It appeared in German in 1919 and in English in 1921. It came out without the author's name, edited by the psychoanalyst Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, and Sigmund Freud wrote a short preface praising it as a document of a young mind.
The book gives you a child's view of her home, her school and her own changing body, set down in her own voice. You hear her anger at her parents, her crushes, her fears and her sharp judgments of the adults around her. Later readers have argued about how much of it was reshaped by its editor, and that question is part of its story. Let us look first at why it was published at all.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A private diary becomes a case studyFree
- 2A girl's family and school world
- 3Growing up and the awakening of feeling
- 4Is it real? The question of authorship
Punkt 1 von 4
A private diary becomes a case study
The book belongs to the early years of psychoanalysis in Vienna. Thinkers there believed that childhood feelings shaped the adult mind, and they wanted real evidence of how children think. A diary kept for no audience seemed ideal for that purpose.
The editor, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, worked with children and wrote on child psychology. She presented the diary as a rare, unfiltered record of a girl's inner life. Freud's short preface supported that claim and gave the book weight with doctors and teachers.
So the diary was never only a girl's confidences. From the start it was offered to the public as a lesson in how a young person develops, and readers were meant to learn from it as well as feel for its writer.
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Questions about Das Tagebuch eines jungen Mädchens
What is A Young Girl's Diary about?
It is a diary kept by a girl in Vienna between about eleven and fourteen. She writes about her family, school, friends and her changing feelings and body, in a frank and often funny voice.
Is A Young Girl's Diary a true story?
It was presented as a real girl's diary, published in German in 1919. Many scholars now believe the editor, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, wrote or heavily shaped it, so its authenticity is disputed.
Who wrote the preface to A Young Girl's Diary?
Sigmund Freud wrote a short preface. He treated the diary as a valuable record of a young girl's mind, which helped give the book its standing among doctors and teachers.
Why is A Young Girl's Diary important?
It is an early, widely read attempt to show adolescence from the inside. It also shows how early psychoanalysts used personal writing as evidence about childhood and growing up.
Is A Young Girl's Diary hard to read?
No. The entries are short and written in a direct, chatty voice.