The Freud-Fliess letters attracted attention to Freud’s nanny and also to the role played by nannies in the ideal family of psychoanalytic theory. Included in the models that explained the bourgeois family since the nineteenth century, but excluded by analytic theory, the nanny, ever present in Brazilian upper-class families, still poses a question to the ‘father-mother-infant’ triangle.
Nannies-Governesses-Maids; Freud; Domestic Work; Female Migration