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Sigmund Freud was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a form of mental illness treatment and also a philosophy that describes human behaviour. Freud was born in the Moravian city of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire, to Galician Jewish parents.
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BIOGRAPHY
- Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Austria, now known as the Czech Republic.
- At the age of four, Freud’s family moved to Vienna, the city where he would live and work for most of the rest of his life. In 1881 he received his medical degree.
- As a medical student and young physician, Freud’s work has concentrated on neurobiology, studying brain biology and human and animal nerve tissue.
- He later on was considered to be his era’s most prominent intellectual lawmaker. His invention of psychoanalysis was a theory of the human psyche, a treatment to alleviate its ills, and an optic to view culture and society.
EDUCATION
- Freud studied at a Leopoldstadt preparatory school where he excelled in Greek, Latin, history, math, and physics.
- After graduating from secondary school in Vienna (1873), Sigmund Freud entered the University of Vienna Medical School, concentrating on physiology and neurology.
- In 1881, he received a degree in medicine.
CAREER AND MARRIAGE
- Freud entered medical school at the University of Vienna in 1873. In 1882 he became a clinical assistant at the Vienna General Hospital and studied with psychiatrist Theodor Meynert and professor of internal medicine, Hermann Nothnagel.
- By 1885, Freud had conducted important research on the medulla of the brain and was appointed as neuropathology lecturer.
- He was born in Vienna, lived there for most of his childhood, and married Martha Bernays there in 1886. They had 6 kids. His daughter, Anna Freud, became a notable psychoanalyst as well.
- Freud came to the United States in 1909 and gave a presentation at Clark University in Massachusetts of his ideas. This was his first success outside of Vienna.
LEGACY
- The most prominent figure in psychology is among the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial thinkers. The research and theories of Freud helped shape the understanding of childhood, personality, memory, sexuality, and therapy.
- Other psychologists such as Adler, Sullivan, Erikson and Jung have contributed research that came out of the influence or of opposition to Freud’s ideas.
- In 2001, Time Magazine referred to Freud as one of the last century’s most influential thinkers. A 2006 article in Newsweek named him “the most debunked doctor in history.” Although his ideas were the subject of much controversy and discussion, his influence on psychology, therapy, and culture is undeniable.
- As W.H. Auden wrote in his poem In Memory of Sigmund Freud in 1973, “If he was sometimes incorrect, and often ridiculous, to us he is no longer a individual but a whole climate of opinion.”
DEATH
- Freud became weak by the summer of 1939 and suffered serious pain from terminal, inoperable, mouth cancer.
- On September 21, 1939, Freud grasped his friend and doctor Max Schur’s hand and reminded him of his earlier promise not to “torment me unnecessarily.”
- He said, “Now it is nothing but pain and it makes no sense.” Schur administered the first of three strong morphine doses after obtaining the permission of Freud’s daughter, Anna. Freud fell into a coma and never woke up.
- On September 23, 1939, at the age of 83, Sigmund Freud died in London.
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
- The Id. The earliest part of the development of personality is the Id. At birth, the id is present and runs on pure instinct, desire, and need. The Id is guided by the idea of pleasure, which immediately wants to gratify all impulses.
- The Ego. The second personality component, the ego, emerges from the Id. The role is to understand and deal with reality, ensuring that the desires of the id are reigned and articulated in socially acceptable ways.
- The Superego. The superego is the final part of the personality, emerging in the phallic period of Freud’s psychosexual developmental stages at ages of 3 and 5. The superego is the personality’s moral compass, which upholds a sense of right and wrong. Originally these concepts are learned from one’s parents.
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
- Freud proposed five psychosexual stages of development that occur from infancy to old age. He called them oral, anal, phallic, latency, and the genital stage.
- According to this theory, personality is developed during the childhood stages (ages 0-5) that leads to the development of adult personality.
- Unsuccessful completion of a task means a fixation on pleasure zones that will translate in adult life.
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