Life
'Emma Eckstein was born in Vienna on 28 January 1865 to a well-known bourgeois family' with close connections to Freud: 'one of her brothers was Gustav Eckstein (1875-1916), a social democrat and associate of Karl Kautsky, the leader of the Socialist party; and a sister, Therese Schlesinger, a socialist, was one of the first women members of parliament'. Another brother, Friedrich, appears (anonymously) in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents as a 'friend of mine, whose insatiable craving for knowledge has led him to make the most unusual experiments', including 'the practices of Yoga...He sees in them a physiological basis, as it were, for much of the wisdom of mysticism'.
Emma herself was active in the Viennese women's movement, 'collaborating with Dokumente der Frauen and Neues Frauenleben '.
After an operation in 1910, however, 'Emma took to her couch, and remained a partial invalid until she died on 30 July 1924 of a cerebral haemmorrhage'.
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