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What happens when a girl's private feelings become a window into the mysteries of growing up?
In A Young Girl's Diary, an unnamed girl in Vienna records life from about eleven to fourteen. Parents, teachers, schoolwork and friendships fill her days. On the page, anger, crushes and fears sit beside sharp judgments of adults. As her body changes, she tries to understand feelings she cannot yet name.
The diary also invites a different kind of curiosity: what can childhood feelings reveal about the adult mind? This question lies at the heart of early psychoanalysis in Vienna. Alongside the narrator's everyday concerns, you encounter the interests of thinkers who look to childhood for clues to how people think and feel.
What you’ll discover
- Everyday life in Vienna Enter a world of schoolwork, family tensions, teachers and friendships that form and fade.
- Feelings without clear names Follow the shift from games and rivalry toward love, bodily curiosity and unfamiliar emotions.
- Adults through a child's eyes Meet parents and teachers through a young narrator's anger, fears and sharp personal judgments.
- A mind under scrutiny Explore why early psychoanalysts look to childhood feelings for clues to the adult mind.
- Friendships that change Follow the friends she makes and loses as her interests and feelings begin to shift.
Who will love it
For readers who love diaries, the history of psychology, and honest portraits of adolescence, with family tensions, crushes and sharp judgments of adults.
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- A private diary becomes a case study
- A girl's family and school world
- Growing up and the awakening of feeling
- Is it real? The question of authorship
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Das Tagebuch eines jungen Mädchens
by Anonym; Cedar Paul (Übersetzer); Eden Paul (Übersetzer) · 1919
A girl in Vienna confides her crushes, fears and anger at her parents as her body and feelings change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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