Sergei Pankejeff
Ukrainian-born Russian aristocrat and analysand of Sigmund Freud (1886–1979)
Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff (Russian: Серге́й Константи́нович Панке́ев; 24 December 1886 – May 1979) was a Russian aristocrat from Odessa. Pankejeff is best known for being a patient of Sigmund Freud, who gave him the pseudonym of the Wolf Man (German: der Wolfsmann) to protect his identity, after a dream Pankejeff had of a tree full of white wolves.
Biography
Early life and education
Pankejeff was born on the 24 December 1886 at his family's estate near Kakhovka on the river Dnieper. The Pankejeff family (Freud's German transliteration from the Russian; in English it would be transliterated as Pankeyev) was a wealthy family in St. Petersburg.
His father was Konstantin Matviyovich Pankeyev and his mother was Anna Semenivna, née Shapovalova.
Pankejeff's parents were married young and had a happy marriage, but his mother became sickly and was therefore somewhat absent from the lives of her two children. Pankejeff would later describe her as cold and lacking tenderness, though she would show special affection to him when he was sickly.
His father Konstantin, while being a cultured man and a keen hunter, was also an alcoholic who suffered from depressive episodes. He had been treated by Moshe Wulff (a disciple of Freud).
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