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Résumé :
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Her critical eye.
A photo of Freud’s granddaughter Eva as an infant, turning her back on her mother and grandmother to gaze at the camera – this is the focal point of this essay on the girl’s life. Her situation and the circumstances that led to her tragic death are examined through the medium of an image that presents the infant as a prematurely wise child interrogating her own future. – During the 1990s Pierre Segond’s research cast new light on Eva’s previously obscure history. Since then her dramatic story has attracted increasing attention. While all the rest of the extended Freud family managed to escape Nazi-occupied Europe, she alone, though only a teenager, remained behind in enemy territory, and died at the age of 20 before the end of the war. Was it because she was abandoned by her family? or because she turned her back on them? Her mother and grandmother would continue discussing these questions long after her death. – The factual evidence of history is continually subjected to revision. In the interplay between the written and the visual documentation, Eva’s own consciousness of her situation enters the historiography as a questioning glance directed at the historian.
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