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Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence; 4 June 1892 – 28 April 1973) was an American-born British psychoanalyst and, with her husband, the translator into English of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence) Sitter in 32 portraits. Artist associated with 10 portraits. Born in New Jersey to the British painter Mary Florence and an American father, Alix Strachey became a principle figure of psychoanalysis and translator of Sigmund Freud's works.
Alix Strachey (1892–1973), translator of Freud, lived in Berlin from late 1924 to 1925 during her analysis with Karl Abraham. Nearly every day, she exchanged lively, informative, and ironic letters with her husband James during this period.
Jun 12, 2017 · This article undertakes a culture-exchange-studies analysis of an exchange of letters between Alix and James Strachey, written between 1924 and 1925 during Alix Strachey’s stay in Berlin.
Alix Strachey, British psychoanalyst was born on June 4, 1892, in Nutley, New Jersey, and died in London on April 28, 1973. She came form a rather complex but highly intellectual family background and her childhood was quite erratic due to family problems.
‘I caught Alix in profile & saw her old, masterly, advanced’, wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary (Diary 2:135-136) and she was right: Alix Strachey was to become masterly and advanced but her role as one of the first British pioneers of psychoanalysis, as a translator and as a writer is less well known than it should be.
Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence) (1892-1973), Psychologist and translator; wife of James Strachey. Sitter in 32 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
