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Per D Emma Lorusso and Rebecca Thompson

SIGMUND FREUD
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THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
BIOGRAPHY
    • Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia (Czech Republic) on May 6th 1956.
    • He is the firstborn of his 21 year old mother and is the third son of his father, Jacob who was previously married
    • Freud’s birth name was Sisigmund Freud, but changed it to Sigmund when he was 22.
    • He also had a Jewish name: Schlomo
    • He attended and graduated a secondary school a year ahead of his time
    • After attending a lecture on Goethe’s essay On Nature , Freud decided to attend medical school at Vienna University (AROPA)

    • Freud received his medical degree in 1881
    • In 1882, Freud got married and had six children
    • He spent a year in Paris learning about hypnotism from Jean Charcot
    • He realized that hypnosis did not have long lasting results
    • Josef Breuer came up with the idea that traumatic events that have happened in the past have been made unconscious
    • Freud adopted this new idea from his friend, Breuer
    • Eventually, Breuer disagreed with Freud’s ideas so he left Freud alone to finish his theory and development of psychoanalysis
    • In 1900, Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams which was considered his best work
    • It was not until 1908, when the first International Psychoanalytical Congress was held at Salzburg that Freud’s importance began to be generally recognized (Thornton)
    • Freud adopted this new idea from his friend, Breuer
    • Eventually, Breuer disagreed with Freud’s ideas so he left Freud alone to finish his theory and development of psychoanalysis
    • In 1900, Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams which was considered his best work
    • It was not until 1908, when the first International Psychoanalytical Congress was held at Salzburg that Freud’s importance began to be generally recognized (Thornton)
PSYCHOANALYSIS
    • Psychoanalysis isbased on the observation that individuals are often unaware of the factors that determine their emotions and behavior (Association)
    • Freud was the first to say that behavior can be caused by unconscious thoughts which are things that have happened in the past that have been forgotten
    • Freud treated behavior by seeking an explanation by searching for causes in terms of the mental states of the individual concerned
    • Slips of the tongue, obsessive behavior, and dreams are determined by unconscious thoughts in a person’s mind (Thornton)

      FREUD'S VIEW ON HUMAN NATURE
    • “Psychological - or more strictly speaking, psychoanalytic -investigation shows that the deepest essence of human nature, which are similar in all men and which aim at the satisfaction of certain needs... [are] self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain...” -Freud

    • “It may be difficult, for many of us to abandon the belief that there is an instinct toward perfection at work in human beings, which has brought them to their present high level of intellectual achievement and ethical sublimation and which may be expected to watch over their development into supermen. I have no faith, however, in the existence of any such internal instinct and I cannot see how this benevolent illusion is to be preserved.” -Freud

    • “The present development of human beings requires, as it seems to me, no different explanation from that of animals. What appears in minority of human individuals as an untiring compulsion toward further perfection can easily be understood as a result of the instinctual repression upon which is based all that is most precious in human civilization” -Freud (Golden)



QUOTES
  • “Psychological - or more strictly speaking, psychoanalytic -investigation shows that the deepest essence of human nature, which are similar in all men and which aim at the satisfaction of certain needs... [are] self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain...” -Freud
  • “It may be difficult, for many of us to abandon the belief that there is an instinct toward perfection at work in human beings, which has brought them to their present high level of intellectual achievement and ethical sublimation and which may be expected to watch over their development into supermen. I have no faith, however, in the existence of any such internal instinct and I cannot see how this benevolent illusion is to be preserved.” -Freud
  • “The present development of human beings requires, as it seems to me, no different explanation from that of animals. What appears in minority of human individuals as an untiring compulsion toward further perfection can easily be understood as a result of the instinctual repression upon which is based all that is most precious in human civilization” -Freud (Golden)


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