Roland Bonaparte
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| - | Princess '''Marie Bonaparte''' ([[July 2]] [[1882]]-[[September 21]] [[1962]]) was a [[Psychiatry in France|French psychoanalyst]], closely linked with [[Sigmund Freud]]. Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud's escape from [[Nazi Germany]]. Her story of her relationship with Sigmund Freud and how she helped his family escape into exile was made into a [[television film]], released in [[2004]]. ''[[Princesse Marie]]'' <sup>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlJG_Qct-mY YouTube]</sup> was directed by [[Benoît Jacquot]] and starred [[Catherine Deneuve]] as Marie Bonaparte, and [[Heinz Bennent]] as Sigmund Freud. | ||
| - | == Stories of sexual dysfunction == | + | '''Roland Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano''' ([[May 19]], [[1858]] - [[April 14]], [[1924]]) was a French prince and president of the [[Société de Géographie]] from [[1910]] till his death. |
| - | According to the 2008 book ''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach, Marie first consulted Sigmund Freud for treatment of what she described as her [[Female sexual arousal disorder|frigidity]], which was later described as a failure to have [[female orgasm|orgasms]] during [[missionary position]] intercourse. After conducting research on women's orgasms, she concluded the reason was the distance between [[clitoris]] and [[vagina]]. She called those, like herself, the "téléclitoridiennes" -- "she of the distant clitoris." She then attempted to "cure" her own failure to orgasm by having her clitoris moved, surgically, closer to her vagina; although the removal worked, the reattachment was not successful. It was to Marie Bonaparte that [[Sigmund Freud]] remarked, "The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’". She later paid Freud's ransom to Nazi Germany, and preserved Freud's letters to [[Wilhelm Fliess]] despite Freud's wish that they be destroyed. | + | He was born in [[Paris]] the son of Prince [[Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte]] and [[Justine Eleanore Ruflin]]. Prince Roland was a grandson of [[Lucien Bonaparte]] a brother of Emperor [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]]. |
| - | Despite what she described as [[sexual dysfunction]], she later conducted affairs with Freud's disciple [[Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst)|Rudolph Loewenstein]], and [[Aristide Briand]], the [[Prime Minister of France]]. | + | [[Bonaparte Point]] in [[Antarctica]] was named after him by [[Jean-Baptiste Charcot]]. |
| - | == Biography == | + | |
| - | Marie Bonaparte was a great-grand-niece of [[Napoleon I of France]]. She was a daughter of [[Roland Bonaparte]] ([[19 May]], [[1858]] - [[14 April]], [[1924]]) and Marie-Félix Blanc (1859-1882). Her paternal grandfather was [[Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte]], son of [[Lucien Bonaparte]], and nephew of Napoleon. Her maternal grandfather was François Blanc, the principal real-estate developer of [[Monte Carlo]]. | + | On the death of his cousin Prince [[Prince Napoléon Bonaparte of Canino|Napoléon Charles Bonaparte]] he succeeded him as the 6th [[Prince Canino Line|Prince of Canino and Musignano]] but he did not assume the title. With Prince Roland's death in Paris the senior line of the [[House of Bonaparte]] descending from Lucien Bonaparte became extinct in the male line. |
| - | She was born at [[Saint-Cloud]], a town in [[Hauts-de-Seine]], [[Île-de-France (région)|Île-de-France]]. Her mother died of an [[embolism]] induced by giving birth to Marie. | + | Prince Roland was married in [[Paris]] on [[November 18]], [[1880]] to [[Marie Blanc]] ([[1859]]-[[1882]]). They had one daughter. |
| - | On [[21 November]] [[1907]], at [[Paris]], she married the homosexual [[Prince George of Greece]] in a civil ceremony, with a subsequent religious ceremony on [[12 December]] [[1907]], at [[Athens]]. She was thereafter officially also known as '''Princess Marie of Greece and Denmark'''. They had two children, [[Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark|Peter]] ([[1908]]-[[1980]]) and [[Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark|Eugénie]] ([[1910]]-[[1988]]). | + | *Princess [[Marie Bonaparte]] ([[1882]]-[[1962]]) |
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| - | On 2nd June 1953, Marie and her husband Prince George represented their nephew, King [[Paul of Greece]], at the coronation of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in London. Bored with the [[pomp]] and ceremony, Marie offered to psychoanalyse the gentleman seated next to her who was the future French president [[François Mitterrand]]. Mitterrand obliged Marie and the couple barely witnessed any part of the coronation, but found their activities far more interesting than the lengthy and formal ceremony. | + | |
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| - | She practiced as a psychoanalyst until her death in 1962, providing many services to the cause of psychoanalysis. She founded the French Institute of Psychoanalysis (''Société Psychoanalytique de Paris SPP'') in [[1926]]. In addition to her own work and preservation of Freud's legacy, she also offered financial support for [[Geza Roheim]]'s anthropological explorations. | + | |
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| - | She died of [[leukemia]] in [[Saint-Tropez]], was cremated in [[Marseilles]], and her ashes were interred in Prince George's tomb at [[Tatoï]], near [[Athens]]. | + | |
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| - | ==Works== | + | |
| - | *''Topsy'' - 1940 - a love story about her dog. | + | |
| - | *''[[The Life and Works of E. A. Poe: a Psychoanalytic Interpretation]]'' (1949), [[E. A. Poe]] | + | |
| - | *''Five Copy Books'' - 1952 | + | |
| - | *''[[Feminine Sexuality]]'' - 1953 | + | |
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Roland Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (May 19, 1858 - April 14, 1924) was a French prince and president of the Société de Géographie from 1910 till his death.
He was born in Paris the son of Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and Justine Eleanore Ruflin. Prince Roland was a grandson of Lucien Bonaparte a brother of Emperor Napoleon I.
Bonaparte Point in Antarctica was named after him by Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
On the death of his cousin Prince Napoléon Charles Bonaparte he succeeded him as the 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano but he did not assume the title. With Prince Roland's death in Paris the senior line of the House of Bonaparte descending from Lucien Bonaparte became extinct in the male line.
Prince Roland was married in Paris on November 18, 1880 to Marie Blanc (1859-1882). They had one daughter.
- Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962)
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