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The Camerons of Fassifern
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 1883 - 1948 (65 years)
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| Name |
Adrian Stephen |
| Born |
1883 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1948 |
| Person ID |
I4231 |
Fassifern Direct |
| Last Modified |
12 Dec 2010 |
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| Notes |
- (Medical):«b»Adrian Stephen«/b» (1883-1948) was a member of the «u»Bloomsbury Group «/u», an author and psychoanalyst, and the brother of «u»Virginia Woolf «/u» and «u»Vanessa Bell «/u». He and his wife became interested in the work of «u»Sigmund Freud «/u», and were among the first British «u»psychoanalysts «/u».
Stephen, educated at «u»Westminster School «/u», was the youngest of four children of «u»Leslie Stephen «/u»; their father's death in 1904 resulted in the four siblings moving to «u»Bloomsbury «/u», and their house there became the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group.
Among his romantic liaisons was his affair with the artist «u»Duncan Grant «/u», which led to Grant's introduction to, and eventual unusual romance with, Stephen's sister Vanessa Bell. In 1914 Stephen married Karin Costelloe, a philosophy graduate and expert on «u»Bergson «/u». On the introduction of «u»conscription «/u» in 1916 during «u»World War I «/u» Stephen became a «u»conscientious objector «/u», like many other members of the Bloomsbury Group, and, with Costelloe, lived out the remainder of the war working on a farm in Essex.
Following the war they became interested in «u»psychoanalysis «/u», training medically at the request of «u»Ernest Jones «/u» and later with «u»James Glover «/u», and becoming qualified in the late 1920s.
In 1936 Stephen decided to recount in detail the «u»Dreadnought Hoax «/u», in which he had taken part a quarter of a century earlier, completing an account published by Hogarth press.
In «u»World War II «/u» Stephen became so angered by the «u»Nazis «/u»' brutality and «u»anti-semitism «/u» that he abandoned his «u»pacifist «/u» stance of the previous war and volunteered to become an army doctor at the age of 60 in 1942, shortly after his sister Virginia's suicide. He died in 1948.
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