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'''Sigmund Freud''' (], ] – ], ]; ]: ) was an ] ] and the co-founder of the ] of ]. Freud is best known for his theories of the ], especially involving the mechanism of ]; his redefinition of ] as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic technique, especially his understanding of ] in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of ]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires.{{fact}} | |||
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'''Sigmund Freud''' ({{IPAc-en|f|r|ɔɪ|d}} {{Respell|FROYD}};<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223181459/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Freud |date=23 December 2014 }}. '']''.</ref> {{IPA|de|ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt|lang}}; born '''Sigismund Schlomo Freud'''; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian ] and the founder of ], a clinical method for evaluating and treating ] seen as originating from conflicts in the ], through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst,<ref name=Systems/> and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.<ref>Pick, Daniel (2015). ''Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition, p. 3.</ref> | |||
Freud was born to ] parents in the ]n town of ], in the ]. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the ].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Noel Sheehy |title=Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology |last2=Alexandra Forsythe |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-134-70493-4 |chapter=Sigmund Freud}}</ref><ref>Kandel, Eric R. (2012). ''The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present'', pp. 45–46. New York: Random House.</ref> Upon completing his ] in 1885, he was appointed a ] in ] and became an affiliated professor in 1902.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 136–37.</ref> Freud lived and worked in ] having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. Following the ] in March 1938, Freud left Austria to escape ] persecution. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939. | |||
The name Freud is generally ] in ] and in ]. He is commonly referred to as "]" and his work has been tremendously influential in the popular imagination — popularizing such notions as the unconscious, ]s, ] and ] — while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as ], ], ] and ] theories, ], ] and ]. | |||
In founding ], Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of ] and discovered ], establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the ] as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory.<ref>Jones, Ernest (1949). ''What is Psychoanalysis?'', p. 47. London: Allen & Unwin.</ref> His analysis of ]s as wish-fulfilments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of ]. On this basis, Freud elaborated his theory of the ] and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising ].<ref name=mannoni>Mannoni, Octave (2015) . ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', pp. 49–51, 146–47, 152–54. London: Verso.</ref> Freud postulated the existence of ], sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a ], the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression, and ] guilt.<ref name=mannoni/> In his later work, Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture. | |||
==Life in Your Mom's Pussy== | |||
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Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within ], ], ], and across the ]. It thus continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate concerning its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or hinders the ] cause.<ref>For its efficacy and the influence of psychoanalysis on psychiatry and psychotherapy, see ''The Challenge to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy'', {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606094737/http://americanmentalhealthfoundation.org/a.php?id=24 |date=6 June 2009 }} by ], 1999 and Tom Burns ''Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry'' London: Allen Lane 2013 pp. 96–97. | |||
Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born into a Jewish family in ] (Freiberg in German), ], in the ] (now belonging to the ]). He had his name after three ] kings Zygmunts (Sigismunds): ], ] and ]. That was an old family tradition after the Freuds were living in Poland at the years of Zygmunt kings (XVI and XVII). In 1877, at the age of 21, he abbreviated his given name to "Sigmund." Although he was the first-born of three brothers and five sisters among his mother's children, Sigmund had older half-brothers from his father's previous marriage. His family had limited finances and lived in a crowded apartment, but his parents made every effort to foster his intellect (often favoring Sigmund over his siblings), which was apparent from an early age. Sigmund was ranked first in his class in six years at the "Gymnasium", his grammar school. (Isbister, pg. 20.) He went on to attend the ] at 17, from 1873 to 1881. | |||
* For the influence on psychology, see {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231004848/http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-13/edition-12 |date=31 December 2014 }} | |||
* For the influence of psychoanalysis in the humanities, see J. Forrester ''The Seductions of Psychoanalysis'' Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 2–3. | |||
* For the debate on efficacy, see Fisher, S. and Greenberg, R.P., ''Freud Scientifically Reappraised: Testing the Theories and Therapy'', New York: John Wiley, 1996, pp. 193–217 | |||
* For the debate on the scientific status of psychoanalysis see {{Cite book |last=Stevens |first=Richard |title=Freud and Psychoanalysis |publisher=Open University Press |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-335-10180-1 |location=Milton Keynes |pages=91–116}}, Gay (2006) p. 745, and {{Cite journal | doi=10.1192/bji.2017.4| pmid=29953128| pmc=6020924|title = The scientific standing of psychoanalysis| journal=BJPsych International| volume=15| issue=1| pages=5–8|year = 2018|last1 = Solms|first1 = Mark|issn=2056-4740}} | |||
* For the debate on psychoanalysis and feminism, see Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. ''Freud's Women''. London: Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 455–74.</ref> Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary ] and popular culture. {{nowrap|]'s}} 1940 poetic tribute to Freud describes him as having created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives".<ref></ref> | |||
==Biography== | |||
Little is known of Freud's early life, as he destroyed his personal papers at least twice, once in 1885 and again in 1907. Additionally, portions of his personal correspondence and unpublished papers were closely guarded in the ] at the ] and for many years were made available only to a few members of the inner circle of ]. Most of these previously restricted documents have now been declassified and are available to researchers who visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. | |||
=== Early life and education === | |||
In 1886, Freud returned to ] and, after opening a private practice specializing in nervous and brain disorders, he married ]. He experimented with ] with his most hysteric and ] patients, but he eventually gave up the practice. (One theory is that he did so because he was not very good at it.) He switched to putting his patients on a couch and encouraging them to say whatever came into their minds (a practice termed ]). | |||
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Sigmund Freud was born to ] parents in the ]n town of ],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digitized Birth Records of Freiberg (Zemský archiv v Opavě) |url=https://digi.archives.cz/da/permalink?xid=be85d01a-f13c-102f-8255-0050568c0263&scan=3196614d700349279f6de3a8330b224a |access-date=18 July 2021 |website=digi.archives.cz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sigmund Freud | Biography, Theories, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud |website=Encyclopedia Britannica|date=2 May 2023 }}</ref> in the ] (in Czech Příbor, now ]), the first of eight children.<ref name="Gresser">Gresser 1994, p. 225.</ref> Both of his parents were from ]. His father, ], a wool merchant, had two sons, Emanuel and Philipp, by his first marriage. Jakob's family were ] and, although Jakob himself had moved away from the tradition, he came to be known for his ]. He and Freud's mother, ], who was 20 years younger and his third wife, were married by Rabbi ] on 29 July 1855.<ref name="Emanuel">{{Cite book |last=Emanuel Rice |title=Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home |publisher=SUNY Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-7914-0453-9 |page=55}}</ref> They were struggling financially and living in a rented room, in a locksmith's house at Schlossergasse 117 when their son Sigmund was born.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 4–8; Clark 1980, p. 4. | |||
In his 40s, Freud "had numerous ] disorders as well as exaggerated ]s of dying and other ]s" (Corey, 2001, p. 67). During this time, Freud was involved in the task of exploring his own dreams, memories and the dynamics of his ] development. During this self-analysis, he came to realize the hostility he felt towards his father (Jacob Freud) and "he also recalled his childhood sexual feelings for his mother (]), who was attractive, warm, and protective" (Corey, 2001, p. 67). Corey (2001) considers this time of emotional difficulty to be the most creative time in Freud's life. | |||
* For Jakob's Torah study, see . | |||
* For the date of the marriage, see .</ref> He was born with a ], which his mother saw as a positive ] for the boy's future.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=<!-- field: -->Deborah P. Margolis, M.A.<!-- field: --> |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=MPSA.014.0037A |title=Margolis 1989 |journal=Mod. Psychoanal |pages=37–56 |access-date=17 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223112728/http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=MPSA.014.0037A |archive-date=23 February 2014|year=1989}}</ref> | |||
In 1859, the ] left Freiberg. Freud's half-brothers immigrated to ], England, parting him from the "inseparable" playmate of his early childhood, Emanuel's son, John.<ref>Jones, Ernest (1964) ''Sigmund Freud: Life and Work.'' Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books p. 37.</ref> Jakob Freud took his wife and two children (Freud's sister, Anna, was born in 1858; a brother, Julius born in 1857, had died in infancy) firstly to ] and then in 1860 to ] where four sisters and a brother were born: Rosa (b. 1860), Marie (b. 1861), Adolfine (b. 1862), Paula (b. 1864), Alexander (b. 1866). In 1865, the nine-year-old Freud entered the {{lang|de|Leopoldstädter Kommunal-Realgymnasium}}, a prominent high school. He proved to be an outstanding pupil and graduated from the ] in 1873 with honors. He loved literature and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, ], ] and ].<ref>Hothersall 2004, p. 276.</ref> | |||
After publishing successful books on the unconscious mind in 1900 and 1901, Freud was appointed to a professorship at the University of Vienna, where he began to develop a loyal following. | |||
Freud entered the University of Vienna at age 17. He had planned to study law, but joined the medical faculty at the university, where his studies included philosophy under ], physiology under ], and zoology under ] professor ].<ref>Hothersall 1995<!--page number?--></ref> In 1876, Freud spent four weeks at Claus's zoological research station in ], dissecting hundreds of eels in an inconclusive search for their male reproductive organs.<ref>See "]" and references therein.</ref> In 1877, Freud moved to Ernst Brücke's physiology laboratory where he spent six years comparing the brains of humans with those of other vertebrates such as frogs, ] as well as also invertebrates, for example ]. His research work on the biology of nervous tissue proved seminal for the subsequent discovery of the ] in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Costandi |first=Mo |title=Freud was a pioneering neuroscientist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2014/mar/10/neuroscience-history-science |work=] |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=16 May 2018}}<br>In this period he published three papers: | |||
]. Front row from left: Sigmund Freud, ], ]. Back row from left: ], ], ].]] | |||
* {{cite book |last=Freud |first=Sigmund |title=Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri) |publisher=na |trans-title=On the Origin of the Posterior Nerve Roots in the Spinal Cord of ] (]) |url=https://archive.org/details/b3047467x |year=1877|language=de}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Freud |first=Sigmund |title=Über Spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon |trans-title=On the Spinal Ganglia and Spinal Cord of ] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9I7mgEACAAJ |year=1878|language=de}} | |||
* {{cite journal |last=Freud |first=Sigmund |title=A New Histological Method for the Study of Nerve-Tracts in the Brain and Spinal Cord |journal=] |date=April 1884 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=86–88 |doi=10.1093/brain/7.1.86|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1935710 }} | |||
For a more in-depth analysis: {{cite book |last1=Gamwell |first1=Lynn|author1-link= Lynn Gamwell |last2=Solms |first2=Mark |author-link2=Mark Solms |title=From Neurology to Psychoanalysis |url=https://www.curezone.org/upload/PDF/From_NEUROLOGY_to_PSYCHOANALYSIS_by_Sigmund_Freud.pdf |year=2006 |publisher=] |location=] |pages=29–33, 37–39|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830064321/https://www.curezone.org/upload/PDF/From_NEUROLOGY_to_PSYCHOANALYSIS_by_Sigmund_Freud.pdf |archive-date=30 August 2017}}</ref> Freud's research work was interrupted in 1879 by the obligation to undertake a year's compulsory military service. The lengthy downtimes enabled him to complete a commission to translate four essays from ]'s collected works.<ref>Gay 2006 p. 36.</ref> He graduated with an ] in March 1881.<ref>] 1992 , p. .</ref> | |||
===Early career and marriage=== | |||
Freud had little tolerance for colleagues who diverged from his psychoanalytic doctrines. He attempted to expel those who disagreed with the movement or even refused to accept certain central aspects of his theory (Corey, 2001): the most notable examples are ] and ]. While Freud wrote a stinging attack on both of them in a piece called "On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement," he ostracized the dissidents ] and ] by complete silence. | |||
In 1882 Freud began his medical career at ]. His research work in cerebral anatomy led to the publication in 1884 of an influential paper on the palliative effects of cocaine, and his work on ] would form the basis of his first book ''On Aphasia: A Critical Study'', published in 1891.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wallesch |first=Claus |year=2004 |title=History of Aphasia Freud as an aphasiologist |journal=Aphasiology |volume=18 |issue=April |pages=389–399 |doi=10.1080/02687030344000599 |s2cid=144976195}}</ref> Over a three-year period, Freud worked in various departments of the hospital. His time spent in ]'s ] clinic and as a ] in a local asylum led to an increased interest in clinical work. His substantial body of published research led to his appointment as a university lecturer or ] in ] in 1885, a non-salaried post but one which entitled him to give lectures at the University of Vienna.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 42–47.</ref> | |||
In 1886 Freud resigned his hospital post and entered private practice specializing in "nervous disorders". The same year he married ], the granddaughter of ], a chief rabbi in Hamburg. Freud was, as an ], dismayed at the requirement in Austria for a Jewish religious ceremony and briefly considered, before dismissing, the prospect of joining the Protestant 'Confession' to avoid one.<ref>Jones, Ernest. ''Sigmund Freud: Life and Work'', Vol. 1. London: Hogarth Press, 1953, p. 183, see also Vol. 2 pp. 19–20.</ref> A civil ceremony for Bernays and Freud took place on 13 September and a religious ceremony took place the following day, with Freud having been hastily tutored in the Hebrew prayers.<ref>Roudinesco, Elizabeth (2016). ''Freud: In His Time and Ours''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 48–49.</ref> The Freuds had six children: Mathilde (b. 1887), Jean-Martin (b. 1889), Oliver (b. 1891), ] (b. 1892), Sophie (b. 1893), and ] (b. 1895). From 1891 until they left Vienna in 1938, Freud and his family lived in an apartment at ], near ]. | |||
In 1930, Freud was awarded the ] by the city of Frankfurt, in recognition of his exceptional qualities as a writer in the German language. His mother died the same year, at the age of ninety-five. In 1933, as Hitler and the Nazis seized power in Germany, Freud's books were burnt publicly by the ]. | |||
On 8 December 1897 Freud was initiated into the German Jewish cultural association ], to which he remained linked for all his life. Freud gave a speech on the interpretation of dreams, which had an enthusiastic reception. It anticipated the ], which was published for the first time two years later.<ref>''Sigmund Freud and the B'Nai B'Rith''. {{doi|10.1177/000306517902700209}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Elisabetta Cicciola (Historical Archive of the ] |publisher=]|journal=]|volume=LIV|year=2019|number=Fasc.1–2|title=Freud e l' ordine del B'nai B'rith: un' appartenenza lunga quarant'anni|series=Nuova serie|language=it|url=https://www.academia.edu/44614103}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnaibrith.org/saving-sigmund-freud/|title=Saving Sigmund Freud {{!}} Interview with Former Newsweek Editor Andrew Nagorski|date=November 10, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sigmund-freud-judaic-treasures|title=The Starry Sky & the Still Small Voice: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)|publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
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Following the ] '']'', Freud fled Austria with his family with the financial help of his patient and friend ] ]. On ], ], they were allowed across the border into ] and then they traveled from ] to ], ], ], where they lived at 20 Maresfield Gardens (now the ]). As he was leaving Germany, ] forced him to sign a statement that he had been treated respectfully. Freud wrote sarcastically, "I warmly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." | |||
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In England, in 1938, Freud's longing to be embraced by society as an important scientist was partly realized when two secretaries of the ] brought the book of the Society for Freud to sign. Freud wrote to his friend ]: "They left a facsimile of the book with me and if you were here I could should show you the signatures from ] to ]. Good company!" | |||
In 1896, Minna Bernays, Martha Freud's sister, became a permanent member of the Freud household after the death of her fiancé. The close relationship she formed with Freud led to rumours, started by ], of an affair. The discovery of a Swiss hotel guest-book entry for 13 August 1898, signed by Freud whilst travelling with his sister-in-law, has been presented as evidence of the affair.<ref>], "Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Conquest of Rome: New Light on the Origins of Psychoanalysis", ''The New American Review'', Spring/Summer 1982, pp. 1–23, which makes a case that Freud impregnated Minna and arranged an abortion for her. | |||
* see Gay 2006, pp. 76, 752–53 for a sceptical rejoinder to Swales. | |||
* for the discovery of the hotel log see {{Cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Ralph |date=24 December 2006 |title=Hotel log hints at desire that Freud didn't repress – Europe – International Herald Tribune |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/world/europe/24iht-web.1224freud.3998915.html |url-status=live |access-date=4 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613082851/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/world/europe/24iht-web.1224freud.3998915.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=13 June 2017}} | |||
* see also 'Minna Bernays as "Mrs. Freud": What Sort of Relationship Did Sigmund Freud Have with His Sister-in-Law?' by Franz Maciejewski and Jeremy Gaines, ''American Imago'', Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 5–21.</ref> | |||
Freud began ] at age 24; initially a cigarette smoker, he became a cigar smoker.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eiland |first=Murray |date=2014 |title=Cigar Box Heraldry |url=https://www.academia.edu/8013409 |journal=The Armiger's News |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=1–4 |via=academia.edu}}</ref> He believed smoking enhanced his capacity to work and that he could exercise ] in moderating it. Despite health warnings from colleague ], he remained a smoker, eventually developing ].<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 77, 169.</ref> Freud suggested to Fliess in 1897 that addictions, including that to tobacco, were substitutes for ], "the one great habit."<ref>Freud and Bonaparte 2009, pp. 238–39.</ref> | |||
Freud began smoking at age 24, and ] ]s for most of his life. When his colleague ], a nose and throat specialist, suggested that he quit in order to clear up some nasal catarrhs, Freud was unwilling to do so. (Gay, 1988, p.169) Even after having his ] removed due to ], he continued to smoke until his death on ], ]. After contracting cancer of the mouth in 1923 at the age of 67, he underwent over 30 operations to treat the disease, and for several years wore a painful ] to seal off his mouth from his nasal cavity. In the end, Freud could no longer tolerate the pain associated with his cancer. He requested that his personal physician visit him at his London home for the purpose of helping him end his own life. Freud's death was by a physician-assisted ] overdose. | |||
Freud had greatly admired his philosophy tutor, ], who was known for his theories of perception and introspection. Brentano discussed the possible existence of the unconscious mind in his '']'' (1874). Although Brentano denied its existence, his discussion of the unconscious probably helped introduce Freud to the concept.<ref name="Vitzpages5354">Vitz 1988, pp. 53–54.</ref> Freud owned and made use of ]'s major evolutionary writings and was also influenced by ]'s '']'' (1869). Other texts of importance to Freud were by ] and ],<ref>Sulloway 1992 , pp. 66–67, 116.</ref> with the latter's ''Psychology as Science'' arguably considered to be of underrated significance in this respect.<ref>Darian Leader, ''Freud's Footnotes'', London, Faber, 2000, pp. 34–45.</ref> Freud also drew on the work of ], who was one of the main contemporary theorists of the concepts of the unconscious and empathy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pigman |first=G.W. |year=1995 |title=Freud and the history of empathy |journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis |volume=76 |issue=Pt 2 |pages=237–56 |pmid=7628894}}</ref> | |||
===Family / Descendants=== | |||
Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter, ], was also a distinguished psychoanalyst, particularly in the fields of child and ]. Sigmund is the grandfather of ] ] and ]/]/] ], and the great-grandfather of ] ], ] ], novelist ] (daughter of Lucian) and media magnates ] and ]. | |||
Sigmund Freud was also both a blood uncle and an uncle-in-law to ] and ] wizard ]. Bernays's mother, Anna Freud Bernays, was sister to Sigmund. Bernays's father, Ely Bernays, was brother to Sigmund's wife, Martha Bernays Freud. | |||
Though Freud was reluctant to associate his psychoanalytic insights with prior philosophical theories, attention has been drawn to analogies between his work and that of both ]<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8005756/ |quote=A close study of Schopenhauer's central work, 'The World as Will and Representation', reveals that certain of Freud's most characteristic doctrines were first articulated by Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's concept of the will contains the foundations of what in Freud become the concepts of the unconscious and the id. Schopenhauer's writings on madness anticipate Freud's theory of repression and his first theory of the aetiology of neurosis. Schopenhauer's work contains aspects of what becomes the theory of free association. And most importantly, Schopenhauer articulates major parts of the Freudian theory of sexuality. These correspondences raise a question about Freud's denial that he even read Schopenhauer until late in life. |pmid=8005756 |year=1994 |last1=Young |first1=C. |last2=Brook |first2=A. |title=Schopenhauer and Freud |journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis |volume=75 ( Pt 1) |pages=101–118 }}</ref> and ]. In 1908, Freud said that he occasionally read Nietzsche, and was strongly fascinated by his writings, but did not study him, because he found Nietzsche's "intuitive insights" resembled too much his own work at the time, and also because he was overwhelmed by the "wealth of ideas" he encountered when he read Nietzsche. Freud sometimes would deny the influence of Nietzsche's ideas. One historian quotes Peter L. Rudnytsky, who says that based on Freud's correspondence with his adolescent friend Eduard Silberstein, Freud read Nietzsche's '']'' and probably the first two of the '']'' when he was seventeen.<ref>Paul Roazen, in Dufresne, Todd (ed). ''Returns of the French Freud: Freud, Lacan, and Beyond''. New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997, pp. 13–15.</ref><ref>Rudnytsky, Peter L. ''Freud and Oedipus''. Columbia University Press (1987), p. 198. {{ISBN|978-0231063531}}</ref> Freud bought Nietzsche's collected works in 1900; telling Wilhelm Fliess that he hoped to find in Nietzsche's works "the words for much that remains mute in me." Later, he said he had not yet opened them.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 45.</ref> Freud came to treat Nietzsche's writings, according to Peter Gay, "as texts to be resisted far more than to be studied."<ref>Gay 1988, p. 45</ref> His interest in philosophy declined after he decided on a career in ].<ref>Holt 1989, p. 242.</ref> | |||
==Innovations== | |||
Freud has been influential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a theory of the human ] and human ], as well as clinical techniques for attempting to help ]s. | |||
Freud read ] in English; his understanding of human psychology may have been partially derived from Shakespeare's plays.<ref>Bloom 1994, p. 346.</ref> | |||
===Early work=== | |||
A lesser known interest of Freud's was ]. He was an early researcher on the topic of ], then known as "cerebral paralysis." He published several medical papers on the topic and showed that the disease existed far before other researchers in his day began to notice and study it. He also suggested that ], the man who first identified cerebral palsy, was wrong about lack of ] during the birth process being a cause. Instead, he suggested that complications in birth were only a symptom of the problem. It was not until the 1980s that Freud's speculations were confirmed by more modern research. | |||
Freud's Jewish origins and his allegiance to his secular Jewish identity were of significant influence in the formation of his intellectual and moral outlook, especially concerning his intellectual non-conformism, as he pointed out in his ''Autobiographical Study''.<ref>Robert, Marthe (1976) ''From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish Identity'' New York: Anchor, pp. 3–6.</ref> They would also have a substantial effect on the content of psychoanalytic ideas, particularly in respect of their common concerns with depth interpretation and "the bounding of desire by law".<ref>Frosh, Stephen (2006) "Psychoanalysis and Judaism" in Black, David M. (ed.) ''Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?'', London and New York: Routledge, pp. 205–06.</ref> | |||
Freud was an early user and proponent of ] as a stimulant. He wrote several articles on the ] qualities of the drug and he was influenced by his friend and confidant ], who recommended cocaine for the treatment of the "nasal reflex neurosis." Fliess operated on Freud and a number of Freud's patients whom he believed to be suffering from the disorder, including ], whose surgery proved disastrous. | |||
===Relationship with Fliess=== | |||
Freud felt that cocaine would work as a cure-all for many disorders and wrote a well-received paper, "On Coca," explaining its virtues. He prescribed it to his friend ] to help him overcome a morphine ] he had acquired while treating a disease of the nervous system. Freud also recommended it to many of his close family and friends. He narrowly missed out on obtaining ] for discovering cocaine's ] properties (of which Freud was aware but on which he had not written extensively), after ], a colleague of Freud's in Vienna, presented a report to a medical society in 1884 outlining the ways in which cocaine could be used for delicate ] surgery. Freud was bruised by this, especially because this would turn out to be one of the few safe uses of cocaine, as reports of addiction and overdose began to filter in from many places in the world. Freud's medical reputation became somewhat tarnished because of this early enthusiasm. Furthermore, Freud's friend Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of "cocaine psychosis" as a result of Freud's prescriptions and died a few years later. Freud felt great regret over these events, which later biographers have dubbed "The Cocaine Incident." | |||
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During the formative period of his work, Freud valued and came to rely on the intellectual and emotional support of his friend ], a Berlin-based ear, nose, and throat specialist whom he had first met in 1887. Both men saw themselves as isolated from the prevailing clinical and theoretical mainstream because of their ambitions to develop radical new theories of sexuality. Fliess developed highly eccentric theories of human ]s and a nasogenital connection which are today considered pseudoscientific.<ref>{{cite book|author=Luis A. Cordón|title=Freud's World: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZyqvspI__QC&pg=PA125|date=8 May 2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-08441-6|pages=125–}}</ref> He shared Freud's views on the importance of certain aspects of sexuality – ], ], and the use of ] – in the etiology of what was then called the "actual neuroses," primarily ] and certain physically manifested anxiety symptoms.<ref name="massonee">{{Cite book |last=Masson |first=Jeffrey Moussaieff |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDkkSLkjdJ8C |title=The Assault on Truth |publisher=Untreed Reads |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-61187-280-4 |page= |author-link=Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |orig-year=1984}}</ref> They maintained an extensive correspondence from which Freud drew on Fliess's speculations on infantile sexuality and bisexuality to elaborate and revise his own ideas. His first attempt at a systematic theory of the mind, his ''Project for a Scientific Psychology'', was developed as a ] with Fliess as interlocutor.<ref>Kris, Ernst, Introduction to ''Sigmund Freud The Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes 1887–1902''. Eds. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kris, E. London: Imago 1954.</ref> However, Freud's efforts to build a bridge between neurology and psychology were eventually abandoned after they had reached an impasse, as his letters to Fliess reveal,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reeder |first=Jurgen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38_kz3n4bbEC |title=Reflecting Psychoanalysis. Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience |publisher=Karnac Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-78049-710-5 |location=London |page=}}</ref> though some ideas of the ''Project'' were to be taken up again in the concluding chapter of ''The Interpretation of Dreams''.<ref>Mannoni, Octave, ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', London: Verso 2015, pp. 40–41.</ref> | |||
Freud had Fliess repeatedly operate on his nose and sinuses to treat "nasal reflex neurosis",<ref name="Sulloway1992">Sulloway 1992 , pp. 142ff.</ref> and subsequently referred his patient ] to him. According to Freud, her history of symptoms included severe leg pains with consequent restricted mobility, as well as stomach and menstrual pains. These pains were, according to Fliess's theories, caused by habitual masturbation which, as the tissue of the nose and genitalia were linked, was curable by removal of part of the ].<ref name="Masson">Masson, Jeffrey M. (1984) ''The Assault on Truth. Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory''. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,</ref><ref>Bonomi, Carlos (2015) ''The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume I: Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein''. London: Routledge, p. 80.</ref> Fliess's surgery proved disastrous, resulting in profuse, recurrent nasal bleeding; he had left a half-metre of gauze in Eckstein's nasal cavity whose subsequent removal left her permanently disfigured. At first, though aware of Fliess's culpability and regarding the remedial surgery in horror, Freud could bring himself only to intimate delicately in his correspondence with Fliess the nature of his disastrous role, and in subsequent letters maintained a tactful silence on the matter or else returned to the face-saving topic of Eckstein's hysteria. Freud ultimately, in light of Eckstein's history of adolescent self-cutting and irregular nasal (and menstrual) bleeding, concluded that Fliess was "completely without blame", as Eckstein's post-operative haemorrhages were hysterical "wish-bleedings" linked to "an old wish to be loved in her illness" and triggered as a means of "rearousing affection". Eckstein nonetheless continued her analysis with Freud. She was restored to full mobility and went on to practice psychoanalysis herself.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 84–87, 154–56.</ref><ref>Schur, Max. "Some Additional 'Day Residues' of the Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis." In ''Psychoanalysis, A General Psychology'', ed. R.M. Loewenstein et al. New York: International Universities Press, 1966, pp. 45–95.</ref><ref name=Masson/> | |||
Freud hoped that his research would provide a solid scientific basis for his therapeutic technique. The goal of Freudian therapy, or ], was to bring to ] repressed thoughts and feelings. According to some of his successors, including his daughter Anna Freud, the goal of therapy is to allow the patient to develop a stronger ]; according to others, notably ], the goal of therapy is to lead the ] to a full acknowledgement of his or her inability to satisfy the most basic desires. | |||
Freud, who had called Fliess "the ] of biology", later concluded that a combination of a homoerotic attachment and the residue of his "specifically Jewish mysticism" lay behind his loyalty to his Jewish friend and his consequent overestimation of both his theoretical and clinical work. Their friendship came to an acrimonious end with Fliess angry at Freud's unwillingness to endorse his general theory of sexual periodicity and accusing him of collusion in the plagiarism of his work. After Fliess failed to respond to Freud's offer of collaboration over the publication of his ''Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'' in 1906, their relationship came to an end.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 154–56.</ref> | |||
Classically, the bringing of unconscious thoughts and feelings to consciousness is brought about by encouraging the patient to talk in free association and to talk about dreams. Another important element of psychoanalysis is a relative lack of direct involvement on the part of the analyst, which is meant to encourage the patient to project thoughts and feelings onto the analyst. Through this process, ], the patient can reenact and resolve repressed conflicts, especially childhood conflicts with (or about) parents. | |||
===Development of psychoanalysis=== | |||
The origin of Freud's early work with psychoanalysis can be linked to ]. Freud actually credits Breuer with the discovery of the psychoanalytical method. One case started this phenomenon that would shape the field of psychology for decades to come, the case of Anna O. In 1880 a young girl came to Breuer with symptoms of what was then called ]. Anna O. was a 21 year old highly intelligent young girl. She presented with symptoms such as paralysis of the limbs, split personality and amnesia; today these symptoms are known as ]. After many doctors had given up and accused Anna O. of faking her symptoms, Breuer decided to treat her sympathetically, which he did with all of his patients. He started to hear her mumble words during what he called states of absence. Eventually Breuer started to recognize some of the words and wrote them down. He then hypnotized her and repeated the words to her; Breuer found out that the words were associated with her father's illness and death. Anna O. coined the term 'talk therapy' to describe this process. | |||
]'s '']'' (1887) depicting a ] demonstration. Freud had a lithograph of this painting placed over the couch in his consulting rooms.<ref>Freud had a small lithographic version of the painting, created by Eugène Pirodon (1824–1908), framed and hung on the wall of his Vienna rooms from 1886 to 1938. Once Freud reached England, it was immediately placed directly over the analytical couch in his London rooms.</ref>]] | |||
In October 1885, Freud went to Paris on a three-month fellowship to study with ], a renowned neurologist who was conducting scientific research into ]. He was later to recall the experience of this stay as catalytic in turning him toward the practice of medical psychopathology and away from a less financially promising career in neurology research.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=<!-- field: -->Joseph Aguayo<!-- field: --> |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=pct.009.0223a |title=Joseph Aguayo ''Charcot and Freud: Some Implications of Late 19th-century French Psychiatry and Politics for the Origins of Psychoanalysis'' (1986). Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought |journal=Psychoanal. Contemp. Thought |pages=223–60 |access-date=6 February 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719091239/http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=pct.009.0223a |archive-date=19 July 2011|year=1986 }}</ref> Charcot specialized in the study of hysteria and susceptibility to hypnosis, which he frequently demonstrated with patients on stage in front of an audience. | |||
Once he had set up in private practice in Vienna in 1886, Freud began using hypnosis in his clinical work. He adopted the approach of his friend and collaborator, ], in a type of hypnosis that was different from the French methods he had studied, in that it did not use suggestion. The treatment of one particular patient of Breuer's proved to be transformative for Freud's clinical practice. Described as ], she was invited to talk about her symptoms while under hypnosis (she would coin the phrase "]"). Her symptoms became reduced in severity as she retrieved memories of traumatic incidents associated with their onset. | |||
In the early 1890s Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by what he called his "pressure technique". The traditional story, based on Freud's later accounts of this period, is that as a result of his use of this procedure most of his patients in the mid-1890s reported early childhood sexual abuse. He believed these stories, but then came to realize that for the most part his patients were fantasizing the abuse scenes. | |||
The inconsistent results of Freud's early clinical work eventually led him to abandon hypnosis, having concluded that more consistent and effective symptom relief could be achieved by encouraging patients to talk freely, without censorship or inhibition, about whatever ideas or memories occurred to them. He called this procedure "]". In conjunction with this, Freud found that patients' dreams could be fruitfully analyzed to reveal the complex structuring of unconscious material and to demonstrate the psychic action of ] which, he had concluded, underlay symptom formation. By 1896 he was using the term "]" to refer to his new clinical method and the theories on which it was based.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 64–71.</ref> | |||
However in recent decades several researchers have returned to the original documents and found that the received story, based on Freud's late retrospective account of the episode, is false in many respects. In 1896 Freud posited that the symptoms of 'hysteria' and obsessional neurosis derived from *unconscious* memories of sexual abuse in infancy, and claimed that he had uncovered such incidents for every single one of his current patients (one third of whom were men). However a close reading of his papers and letters from this period indicates that these patients did not report early childhood sexual abuse as he later claimed: rather, he arrived at his findings by analytically inferring the supposed incidents, using a procedure that was heavily dependent on the symbolic interpretation of somatic symptoms. | |||
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===The Unconscious=== | |||
Freud's development of these new theories took place during a period in which he experienced heart irregularities, disturbing dreams and periods of depression, a "neurasthenia" which he linked to the death of his father in 1896<ref>{{Cite web |title=jewishvirtuallibrary Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/freud.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509021811/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/freud.html |archive-date=9 May 2013 |access-date=20 May 2013 |publisher=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> and which prompted a "self-analysis" of his own dreams and memories of childhood. His explorations of his feelings of hostility to his father and rivalrous jealousy over his mother's affections led him to fundamentally revise his theory of the origin of the neuroses. | |||
It has often been claimed that the most significant contribution Freud made to Western thought was his argument for the existence of an ] mind. During the 19th century, the dominant trend in ] thought was ], which subscribed to the belief that people could ascertain real knowledge concerning themselves and their environment and judiciously exercise control over both. Freud, however, suggested that such declarations of free will are in fact delusions; that we are not entirely aware of what we think and often act for reasons that have little to do with our conscious thoughts. The concept of the unconscious as proposed by Freud was allegedly groundbreaking in that he proposed that awareness existed in layers and that there were thoughts occurring "below the surface." Nevertheless, as psychologist Jacques Van Rillaer, among others, pointed out, "contrary to what most people believe, the unconscious was not discovered by Freud. In 1890, when psychoanalysis was still unheard of, ], in his monumental treatise on psychology, examined the way Schopenhauer, von Hartmann, Janet, Binet and others had used the term 'unconscious' and 'subconscious'".<ref>Meyer (2005, 217).</ref> Moreover, the historian of psychology Mark Altschule writes: "It is difficult - or perhaps impossible - to find a nineteenth century psychologist or medical psychologist who did not recognize unconscious cerebration as not only real but of the highest importance."<ref>Altschule (1977, 199), cited in </ref> | |||
Based on his early clinical work, Freud postulated that unconscious memories of sexual molestation in early childhood were a necessary precondition for psychoneuroses (hysteria and obsessional neurosis), a formulation now known as ].<ref>Freud 1896c, pp. 203, 211, 219; Eissler 2005, p. 96.</ref> In the light of his self-analysis, Freud abandoned the theory that every neurosis can be traced back to the effects of infantile sexual abuse, now arguing that infantile sexual scenarios still had a causative function, but it did not matter whether they were real or imagined and that in either case, they became pathogenic only when acting as repressed memories.<ref>J. Forrester ''The Seductions of Psychoanalysis'' Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 75–76.</ref> | |||
]s, which he called the "royal road to the unconscious", provided the best access to our unconscious life and the best illustration of its "logic", which was different from the logic of conscious thought. Freud developed his first ] of the psyche in '']'' (1899) in which he proposed the argument that the unconscious exists and described a method for gaining access to it. The ] was described as a layer between conscious and unconscious thought—that which we could access with a little effort. Thus for Freud, the ideals of ], positivism and rationalism, could be achieved through understanding, transforming, and mastering the unconscious, rather than through denying or repressing it. | |||
This transition from the theory of infantile sexual trauma as a general explanation of how all neuroses originate to one that presupposes autonomous infantile sexuality provided the basis for Freud's subsequent formulation of the theory of the ].<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 88–96.</ref> | |||
Crucial to the operation of the unconscious is "]." According to Freud, people often experience thoughts and feelings that are so painful that people cannot bear them. Such thoughts and feelings—and associated memories—could not, Freud argued, be banished from the mind, but could be banished from consciousness. Thus they come to constitute the unconscious. Although Freud later attempted to find patterns of repression among his patients in order to derive a general model of the mind, he also observed that individual patients repress different things. Moreover, Freud observed that the process of repression is itself a non-conscious act (in other words, it did not occur through people willing away certain thoughts or feelings). Freud supposed that what people repressed was in part determined by their unconscious. In other words, the unconscious was for Freud both a cause and effect of repression. | |||
Freud described the evolution of his clinical method and set out his theory of the psychogenetic origins of hysteria, demonstrated in several case histories, in ''Studies on Hysteria'' published in 1895 (co-authored with ]). In 1899, he published '']'' in which, following a critical review of existing theory, Freud gives detailed interpretations of his own and his patients' dreams in terms of ] made subject to the repression and censorship of the "dream-work". He then sets out the theoretical model of mental structure (the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious) on which this account is based. An abridged version, ''On Dreams'', was published in 1901. In works that would win him a more general readership, Freud applied his theories outside the clinical setting in '']'' (1901) and '']'' (1905).<ref>Mannoni, Octave, ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', London: Verso 2015, pp. 55–81.</ref> In '']'', published in 1905, Freud elaborates his theory of infantile sexuality, describing its "polymorphous perverse" forms and the functioning of the "drives", to which it gives rise, in the formation of sexual identity.<ref>Mannoni, Octave, ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', London: Verso 2015, p. 91.</ref> The same year he published '']'', which became one of his more famous and controversial ].<ref>Charles Bernheimer and ] (eds) ''In Dora's Case: Freud – Hysteria – Feminism'', London: Virago 1985.</ref> Known as the 'Dora' case study, for Freud it was illustrative of ] as a symptom and contributed to his understanding of the importance of ] as a clinical phenomena. In other of his early case studies Freud set out to describe the symptomatology of ] in the case of the ], and ] in the case of ].<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 253–261</ref> | |||
Later, Freud distinguished between three concepts of the unconscious: the ], the ], and the ]. The descriptive unconscious referred to all those features of mental life of which we are not subjectively aware. The dynamic unconscious, a more specific ], referred to mental process and contents which are defensively removed from consciousness as a result of conflictual forces or "dynamics". The system unconscious denoted the idea that when mental processes are repressed, they become organized by principles different from those of the conscious mind, such as condensation and displacement. | |||
===Early followers=== | |||
Eventually, Freud abandoned the idea of the system unconscious, replacing it with the concept of the ] (discussed below). Throughout his career, however, he retained the descriptive and dynamic conceptions of the unconscious. | |||
], 1909. Front row: Freud, ], ]; back row: ], ], ] ]] | |||
In 1902, Freud, at last, realised his long-standing ambition to be made a university professor. The title "professor extraordinarius"<ref>{{Cite book |last1=John Forrester, Introduction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqYKb9-zGRkC&pg=PT70 |title=Interpreting Dreams |last2=Sigmund Freud |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-14-191553-1 |page=70 |quote=Affiliated Professor seems to me to be the best translation of professor extraordinarius, which position has the rank of Full Professor, but without payment by the University.}}</ref> was important to Freud for the recognition and prestige it conferred, there being no salary or teaching duties attached to the post (he would be granted the enhanced status of "professor ordinarius" in 1920).<ref>Clark (1980), p. 424</ref> Despite support from the university, his appointment had been blocked in successive years by the political authorities and it was secured only with the intervention of an influential ex-patient, Baroness Marie Ferstel, who (supposedly) had to bribe the minister of education with a valuable painting.<ref>Phillips, Adam (2014) ''Becoming Freud'' Yale University Press. p. 139.</ref> | |||
Freud continued with the regular series of lectures on his work which, since the mid-1880s as a ] of Vienna University, he had been delivering to small audiences every Saturday evening at the lecture hall of the university's psychiatric clinic.<ref name="FreudianCalling52">{{Cite book |last=Rose |first=Louis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTMnqDhTzNgC&pg=PA52 |title=The Freudian Calling: Early Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-8143-2621-3 |location=Detroit |page=52}}</ref> From the autumn of 1902, a number of Viennese physicians who had expressed interest in Freud's work were invited to meet at his apartment every Wednesday afternoon to discuss issues relating to psychology and neuropathology.<ref name="Cassandra100">{{Cite book |last=Schwartz |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjw-9LEpR04C&pg=PA100 |title=Cassandra's daughter: a history of psychoanalysis |publisher=Karnac |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85575-939-8 |location=London |page=100}}</ref> This group was called the Wednesday Psychological Society (''Psychologische Mittwochs-Gesellschaft'') and it marked the beginnings of the worldwide psychoanalytic movement.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellenberger |first=Henri F. |url=https://archive.org/details/discoveryofuncon00ellerich |title=The Discovery of the Unconscious: the History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry |publisher=Basic Books |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-465-01673-0 |edition= |location=New York |pages=, 454 |url-access=registration}}</ref> | |||
===Psychosexual development=== | |||
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Freud hoped to prove that his model was universally valid and thus turned to ancient ] and contemporary ethnography for comparative material. Freud named his new theory the ] after the famous ] '']'' by ]. “I found in myself a constant love for my mother, and jealousy of my father. I now consider this to be a universal event in childhood,” Freud said. Freud sought to anchor this pattern of development in the dynamics of the mind. Each stage is a progression into adult sexual maturity, characterized by a strong ego and the ability to delay gratification (cf. '']''). He used the Oedipus conflict to point out how much he believed that people desire ] and must repress that desire. The Oedipus conflict was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness. He also turned to ] studies of ] and argued that totemism reflected a ritualized enactment of a tribal ]. | |||
Freud founded this discussion group at the suggestion of the physician ]. Stekel had studied medicine; his conversion to psychoanalysis is variously attributed to his successful treatment by Freud for a sexual problem or as a result of his reading ''The Interpretation of Dreams'', to which he subsequently gave a positive review in the Viennese daily newspaper ''Neues Wiener Tagblatt''.<ref>Stekel's review appeared in 1902. In it, he declared that Freud's work heralded "a new era in psychology".{{Cite book |last=Rose |first=Louis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTMnqDhTzNgC&pg=PA52 |title=The Freudian Calling: Early Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-8143-2621-3 |location=Detroit |page=52}}</ref> | |||
Freud originally posited childhood ] as a general explanation for the origin of neuroses, but he abandoned this so-called "seduction theory" as insufficiently explanatory, noting that he had found many cases in which apparent memories of childhood sexual abuse were based more on imagination than on real events. During the late 1890s Freud, who never abandoned his belief in the sexual etiology of neuroses, began to emphasize fantasies built around the Oedipus complex as the primary cause of hysteria and other neurotic symptoms. Despite this change in his explanatory model, Freud always recognized that some neurotics had been sexually abused by their fathers, and was quite explicit about discussing several patients that he knew to have been abused.(Gay, 1988, p.95) | |||
The other three original members whom Freud invited to attend, ], Max Kahane, and Rudolf Reitler, were also physicians<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rose |first=Louis |year=1998 |title=Freud and fetishism: previously unpublished minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PAQ.057.0147A |url-status=live |journal=Psychoanalytic Quartery |volume=57 |issue=2 |page=147 |doi=10.1080/21674086.1988.11927209 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309112945/http://pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.057.0147a |archive-date=9 March 2016}}</ref> and all five were Jewish by birth.<ref>Reitler's family had converted to Catholicism. {{Cite book |last=Makari |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPWBHwLjeXsC&pg=PA130 |title=Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis |publisher=Melbourne University Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-522-85480-0 |edition=Australian |location=Carlton, Vic. |page=130}}</ref> Both Kahane and Reitler were childhood friends of Freud who had gone to university with him and kept abreast of Freud's developing ideas by attending his Saturday evening lectures.<ref name="makari130">{{Cite book |last=Makari |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPWBHwLjeXsC&pg=PA130 |title=Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis |publisher=Melbourne University Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-522-85480-0 |edition=Australian |location=Carlton, Vic. |pages=130–31}}</ref> In 1901, Kahane, who first introduced Stekel to Freud's work,<ref name=FreudianCalling52/> had opened an out-patient psychotherapy institute of which he was the director in Vienna.<ref name=Cassandra100/> In the same year, his medical textbook, ''Outline of Internal Medicine for Students and Practicing Physicians'', was published. In it, he provided an outline of Freud's psychoanalytic method.<ref name=FreudianCalling52/> Kahane broke with Freud and left the Wednesday Psychological Society in 1907 for unknown reasons and in 1923 committed suicide.<ref>Stekel, Wilhelm (2007). 'On the history of the psychoanalytic movement. Jap Bos (trans. and annot.). In Japp Boss and Leendert Groenendijk (eds). . New York. p. 131</ref> Reitler was the director of an establishment providing thermal cures in ] which had been founded in 1901.<ref name=Cassandra100/> He died prematurely in 1917. Adler, regarded as the most formidable intellect among the early Freud circle, was a socialist who in 1898 had written a health manual for the tailoring trade. He was particularly interested in the potential social impact of psychiatry.<ref name="Gay174">Gay 2006, pp. 174–75</ref> | |||
], a Viennese musicologist and father of "]", who had first encountered Freud in 1900 and joined the Wednesday group soon after its initial inception,<ref>The real name of "Little Hans" was Herbert Graf. See Gay 2006, pp. 156, 174.</ref> described the ritual and atmosphere of the early meetings of the society: | |||
Freud also believed that the ] developed in individuals by changing its object, a process designed by the concept of '']''. He argued that humans are born "polymorphously perverse", meaning that any number of objects could be a source of pleasure. He further argued that, as humans develop, they become fixated on different and specific objects through their stages of development—first in the ] (exemplified by an infant's pleasure in nursing), then in the ] (exemplified by a toddler's pleasure in emptying his or her bowels), then in the ]. Freud argued that children then passed through a stage in which they fixated on the mother as a sexual object (known as the ]) but that the child eventually overcame and repressed this desire because of its taboo nature. (The lesser known ] refers to such a fixation upon the father.) The repressive or dormant ] of psychosexual development preceded the sexually mature ] of psychosexual development. | |||
{{blockquote|The gatherings followed a definite ritual. First one of the members would present a paper. Then, black coffee and cakes were served; cigars and cigarettes were on the table and were consumed in great quantities. After a social quarter of an hour, the discussion would begin. The last and decisive word was always spoken by Freud himself. There was the atmosphere of the foundation of a religion in that room. Freud himself was its new prophet who made the heretofore prevailing methods of psychological investigation appear superficial.<ref name=Gay174/>}} | |||
Freud's way of interpretation has been called phallocentric by many contemporary thinkers. This is because, for Freud, the unconscious always desires the phallus (penis). Males are afraid of castration - losing their phallus or masculinity to another male. Females always desire to have a phallus - an unfulfillable desire. Thus boys resent their father (fear of castration) and girls desire theirs. For Freud, desire is always defined in the negative term of lack - you always desire what you don't have or what you are not, and it is very unlikely that you will fulfill this desire. Thus his psychoanalysis treatment is meant to teach the patient to cope with his unsatisfiable desires. | |||
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===Ego, super-ego, and id=== | |||
By 1906, the group had grown to sixteen members, including ], who was employed as the group's paid secretary.<ref name=Gay174/> In the same year, Freud began a correspondence with ] who was by then already an academically acclaimed researcher into word-association and the ], and a lecturer at ], although still only an assistant to ] at the ] in Zürich.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wehr, Gerhard |url=https://archive.org/details/jungbiography0000wehr/page/83 |title=Jung – A Biography |date=1985 |publisher=Shambhala |isbn=978-0-87773-455-0 |pages=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sulloway |first=Frank J. |year=1991 |title=Reassessing Freud's case histories: the social construction of psychoanalysis |journal=Isis |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=245–75 |doi=10.1086/355727 |pmid=1917435 |s2cid=41485270}}</ref> In March 1907, Jung and ], also a Swiss psychiatrist, travelled to Vienna to visit Freud and attend the discussion group. Thereafter, they established a small psychoanalytic group in Zürich. In 1908, reflecting its growing institutional status, the Wednesday group was reconstituted as the ]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellenberger |first=Henri F. |url=https://archive.org/details/discoveryofuncon00ellerich |title=The Discovery of the Unconscious: the History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry |publisher=Basic Books |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-465-01673-0 |edition= |location=New York |page= |url-access=registration}}</ref> with Freud as president, a position he relinquished in 1910 in favor of Adler in the hope of neutralizing his increasingly critical standpoint.<ref name="Gay219">Gay 2006, p. 219</ref> | |||
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In his later work, Freud proposed that the psyche was divided into three parts: ]. | |||
Freud discussed this structural model of the mind in the 1920 essay ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle'', and fully elaborated it in ''The Ego and The Id'' (1923), where he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (conscious, unconscious, preconscious). | |||
The first woman member, ], joined the Society in 1910<ref name="Gay503">Gay 2006, p. 503</ref> and the following year she was joined by ] and ] who were both Russian psychiatrists and graduates of the Zürich University medical school. Before the completion of her studies, Spielrein had been a patient of Jung at the Burghölzli and the clinical and personal details of their relationship became the subject of an extensive correspondence between Freud and Jung. Both women would go on to make important contributions to the work of the Russian Psychoanalytic Society founded in 1910.<ref>Martin Miller(1998) ''Freud and the Bolsheviks'', Yale University Press, pp. 24, 45</ref> | |||
===Defense Mechanisms=== | |||
According to Freud, the defense mechanisms are the method by which the ego can solve the conflicts between the super-ego and the id. The use of defense mechanisms may attenuate the conflict between the id and super-ego, but their overuse or reuse rather than confrontation can lead to either anxiety or ] which may result in psychological disorders such as depression. His daughter Anna Freud had done the most significant work on this field, yet she credited Sigmund with defense mechanisms, as he began the work. The defense mechanisms include: ], ], ], ]/] (the proper term), ], ], ], compensation, ] and ]. | |||
Freud's early followers met together formally for the first time at the Hotel Bristol, ] on 27 April 1908. This meeting, which was retrospectively deemed to be the first International Psychoanalytic Congress,<ref>Jones, E. 1955, pp. 44–45</ref> was convened at the suggestion of ], then a London-based neurologist who had discovered Freud's writings and begun applying psychoanalytic methods in his clinical work. Jones had met Jung at a conference the previous year and they met up again in Zürich to organize the Congress. There were, as Jones records, "forty-two present, half of whom were or became practising analysts."<ref>Jones, Ernest (1964) Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books p. 332</ref> In addition to Jones and the Viennese and Zürich contingents accompanying Freud and Jung, also present and notable for their subsequent importance in the psychoanalytic movement were ] and ] from Berlin, ] from Budapest and the New York-based ]. | |||
*''Denial'' occurs when someone fends off awareness of an unpleasant truth or of a reality that is a threat to the ego. For example, a student may have received a bad grade on a report card but tells himself that grades don't matter. (Some early writers argued for a striking parallel between Freudian denial and ]'s ideas of '']'' and the ''revaluation of values'' that he attributed to "herd" or "slave" morality.) | |||
*''Reaction formation'' takes place when a person takes the opposite approach consciously compared to what that person wants unconsciously. For example, someone may engage in violence against another race because, that person claims, the members of the race are inferior, when unconsciously it is that very person who feels inferior. | |||
*''Displacement'' takes place when someone redirects emotion from a "dangerous" object to a "safe" one, such as punching a pillow when one is angry at a friend. | |||
*'']'' occurs when an experience is so painful (such as war trauma) that it is unconsciously forced from consciousness, while ''suppression'' is a conscious effort to do the same. | |||
*''Psychological projection'' occurs when a person "projects" his or her own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings — basically parts of oneself — onto someone or something else. Since the person is experiencing particular desires, feelings, thoughts, or anxieties, s/he is more prone to ] those same characteristics into the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of others. | |||
*''Intellectualisation'' involves removing one's self, emotionally, from a stressful event, by focusing on rational and factual components of the situation. | |||
*''Rationalization'' involves constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. For example, Jim may drink red wine because he is an alcoholic, but he tells himself he drinks it because it has some health benefits, in order to avoid facing his alcoholism. | |||
*''Compensation'' occurs when someone takes up one behaviour because one cannot accomplish another behaviour. For example, the second born child may clown around to get attention since the older child is already an accomplished scholar. | |||
*''Sublimation'' is the channeling of impulses to socially accepted behaviours. For instance, an aggressive or homicidal person may join the military as a cover for their violent behavior. | |||
Important decisions were taken at the Congress to advance the impact of Freud's work. A journal, the ''Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen'', was launched in 1909 under the editorship of Jung. This was followed in 1910 by the monthly ''Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse'' edited by Adler and Stekel, in 1911 by ''Imago'', a journal devoted to the application of psychoanalysis to the field of cultural and literary studies edited by Rank and in 1913 by the '']'', also edited by Rank.<ref>Jones, Ernest (1964) ''Sigmund Freud: Life and Work''. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books pp. 334, 352, 361</ref> Plans for an ] were put in place and these were implemented at the Nuremberg Congress of 1910 where Jung was elected, with Freud's support, as its first president. | |||
===The life and death instincts=== | |||
Freud believed that humans were driven by two conflicting central desires: the life drive (]) (incorporating the sex drive) and the death drive (]). Freud's description of Eros and Libido included all creative, life-producing drives. The ] (or death instinct) represented an urge inherent in all living things to return to a state of calm, or, ultimately, of non-existence. The presence of the Death Drive was only recognized in his later years, and the contrast between the two represents a revolution in his manner of thinking. The death instinct is also referred to as the ] Principle. | |||
Freud turned to Brill and Jones to further his ambition to spread the psychoanalytic cause in the English-speaking world. Both were invited to Vienna following the Salzburg Congress and a division of labour was agreed with Brill given the translation rights for Freud's works, and Jones, who was to take up a post at the ] later in the year, tasked with establishing a platform for Freudian ideas in North American academic and medical life.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 186</ref> Jones's advocacy prepared the way for Freud's visit to the United States, accompanied by Jung and Ferenczi, in September 1909 at the invitation of ], president of ], Worcester, Massachusetts, where he gave five lectures on psychoanalysis.<ref name=Gaypage212/> | |||
===Social psychology=== | |||
The event, at which Freud was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, marked the first public recognition of Freud's work and attracted widespread media interest. Freud's audience included the distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist ], Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at ], who invited Freud to his country retreat where they held extensive discussions over a period of four days. Putnam's subsequent public endorsement of Freud's work represented a significant breakthrough for the psychoanalytic cause in the United States.<ref name="Gaypage212">Gay 2006, p. 212</ref> When Putnam and Jones organised the founding of the ] in May 1911 they were elected president and secretary respectively. Brill founded the ] the same year. His English translations of Freud's work began to appear from 1909. | |||
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====Resignations from the IPA==== | |||
Freud gave explanations of the genesis of religion in his writings, included in a reflection on ]. In '']'' (1913), he proposed that humans originally banded together in “primal hordes”, consisting of a male, a number of females and the offspring of this ] arrangement. According to Freud’s psychoanalytical theory, a male child early in life has sexual desires for his mother – the ] – which he held to be ]. ] would later criticize this point, leading to ethno-psychoanalytic studies. According to Freud, the father is protective, so his sons love him, but they are also jealous of their father for his relationship with their mothers. Finding that individually they cannot defeat the father-leader, they band together, kill and eat him in a ritual meal, thereby ingesting the substance of the father’s hated power – but their subsequent guilt leads the sons to elevate their father's memory and to worship him. The ] then takes the place of the father as the source of internalized authority. A ban was then put upon ] and upon ] within the clan, and symbolic animal ] was substituted for the ritual killing of a human being. | |||
Some of Freud's followers subsequently withdrew from the ] (IPA) and founded their own schools. | |||
From 1909, Adler's views on topics such as neurosis began to differ markedly from those held by Freud. As Adler's position appeared increasingly incompatible with Freudianism, a series of confrontations between their respective viewpoints took place at the meetings of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society in January and February 1911. In February 1911, Adler, then the president of the society, resigned his position. At this time, Stekel also resigned from his position as vice president of the society. Adler finally left the Freudian group altogether in June 1911 to form his own organization with nine other members who had also resigned from the group.<ref>Three members of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society resigned at the same time as Adler to establish the Society for Free Psychoanalysis. Six other members of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society who attempted to retain links to both the Adlerian and Freudian camps were forced out after Freud insisted that they must choose one side or another. {{Cite book |last=Makari |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPWBHwLjeXsC&pg=PA262 |title=Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis |publisher=Melbourne University Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-522-85480-0 |edition=Australian |location=Carlton, Vic. |page=262}}</ref> This new formation was initially called ''Society for Free Psychoanalysis'' but it was soon renamed the ''Society for Individual Psychology''. In the period after World War I, Adler became increasingly associated with a psychological position he devised called ].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellenberger |first=Henri F. |url=https://archive.org/details/discoveryofuncon00ellerich |title=The Discovery of the Unconscious: the History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry |publisher=Basic Books |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-465-01673-0 |edition= |location=New York |pages=, 584–85 |url-access=registration}}</ref> | |||
In '']'' (1939) Freud reconstructed biblical history in accord with his general theory, but many biblical scholars and historians would not accept his account since it defied commonly accepted views on the history of Judaism and of dynastic Egypt. However, this book remains interesting as an interpretation of ] based on ] and ], using the ]ic figure of Moses. His ideas about ] were also developed in '']'' (1927). When Freud spoke of religion as an ], he maintained that it is ] structure from which a man must be set free if he is to grow to ]; and in his treatment of the unconscious he moved toward ]. In this sense, Freud approached the ] of ]. Freud isolated two main principles: ] is the drive towards the dissolution of all life, whereas, ] is to strive towards stopping that drive. When one goal is reached, the other becomes out-of-reach, and vice versa. | |||
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In ''"] and Ego Analysis"'' (''Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analysis'', 1920), Freud explored crowd psychology, continuing ]'s early work. When the individual joins a crowd, he ceases repressing his instincts, and thus relapses into ], according to Freud's analysis. However, crowds must be distinguished into natural and organized crowds, following ]' distinction. Thus, if intellectual skills (the capacity to ] and to distance oneself) are systematically reduced when the individual joins a mass, he may eventually be "morally enlightened". Prefiguring ''Moses and Monotheism'' and ''The Future of an Illusion'', he states that the love relationship between the leader and the masses, in the Church or in the Army, are only an "idealist transformation of the conditions existing in the primitive horde". Freud then compares leader's relationship with the crowd to a relation of ], a force to which he relates ]. Pessimistic about humanity's chances of ], Freud writes that "the leader of the crowd always incarnates the dreaded primitive father, the crowd always wants to be dominated by an illimited power, it is grasping at the highest degree for ] or, to use ]'s expression, it is hungry for subservience". | |||
In 1912, Jung published ''Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido'' (published in English in 1916 as '']'') making it clear that his views were taking a direction quite different from those of Freud. To distinguish his system from psychoanalysis, Jung called it ].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ellenberger |first=Henri F. |url=https://archive.org/details/discoveryofuncon00ellerich |title=The Discovery of the Unconscious: the History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry |publisher=Basic Books |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-465-01673-0 |edition= |location=New York |page= |url-access=registration}}</ref> Anticipating the final breakdown of the relationship between Freud and Jung, Ernest Jones initiated the formation of a ] of loyalists charged with safeguarding the theoretical coherence and institutional legacy of the psychoanalytic movement. Formed in the autumn of 1912, the Committee comprised Freud, Jones, Abraham, Ferenczi, Rank, and ]. Max Eitingon joined the Committee in 1919. Each member pledged himself not to make any public departure from the fundamental tenets of ] before he had discussed his views with the others. After this development, Jung recognised that his position was untenable and resigned as editor of the ''Jahrbuch'' and then as president of the IPA in April 1914. The Zürich branch of the IPA withdrew from membership the following July.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 229–30, 241</ref> | |||
According to Freud, ] to a common figure, the leader, explained the phenomenon of masses' obedience. Each individual connected themselves vertically to the same ideal figure (or ]), each one thus have the same self-ideal, and hence identify together (horizontal relation). Freud also quoted ]'s ''The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War'' (1914). Along with ''Moses and Monotheism'', ''Massenpsychologie...'' would be one of the articles most quoted by Wilhelm Reich and the ] in its ] synthesis. | |||
Later the same year, Freud published a paper entitled "]", the German original being first published in the ''Jahrbuch'', giving his view on the birth and evolution of the psychoanalytic movement and the withdrawal of Adler and Jung from it. | |||
==Freud's legacy== | |||
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The final defection from Freud's inner circle occurred following the publication in 1924 of Rank's '']'' which other members of the Committee read as, in effect, abandoning the Oedipus Complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytic theory. Abraham and Jones became increasingly forceful critics of Rank and though he and Freud were reluctant to end their close and long-standing relationship the break finally came in 1926 when Rank resigned from his official posts in the IPA and left Vienna for Paris. His place on the committee was taken by ].<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 474–81</ref> Rank eventually settled in the United States where his revisions of Freudian theory were to influence a new generation of therapists uncomfortable with the orthodoxies of the IPA. | |||
=== Psychotherapy === | |||
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Freud's theories and research methods were controversial during his life and still are so today, but few dispute his huge impact on ] and the academically inclined. | |||
===Early psychoanalytic movement=== | |||
Most importantly, Freud popularized the "talking-cure"--an idea that a person could solve problems simply by talking over them, something that was almost unheard of in the 19th century. Even though many psychotherapists today tend to reject the specifics of Freud's theories, this basic mode of treatment comes largely from his work. | |||
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After the founding of the IPA in 1910, an international network of psychoanalytical societies, training institutes, and clinics became well established and a regular schedule of biannual ] commenced after the end of ] to coordinate their activities and as a forum for presenting papers on clinical and theoretical topics.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 460</ref> | |||
Abraham and Eitingon founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society in 1910 and then the ] and the Poliklinik in 1920. The Poliklinik's innovations of free treatment, and child analysis, and the Berlin Institute's standardisation of psychoanalytic training had a major influence on the wider psychoanalytic movement. In 1927, ] founded the ] Sanatorium on the outskirts of ], the first such establishment to provide psychoanalytic treatment in an institutional framework. Freud organised a fund to help finance its activities and his architect son, Ernst, was commissioned to refurbish the building. It was forced to close in 1931 for economic reasons.<ref>] (2005). ''Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938''. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 3, 104, 185–86.</ref> | |||
Most of Freud's specific theories--like his stages of psychosexual development--and especially his methodology, have fallen out of favor in modern experimental psychology. | |||
The 1910 Moscow Psychoanalytic Society became the Russian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1922. Freud's Russian followers were the first to benefit from translations of his work, the 1904 Russian translation of ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' appearing nine years before Brill's English edition. The Russian Institute was unique in receiving state support for its activities, including publication of translations of Freud's works.<ref>Miller, Martin (1998) ''Freud and the Bolsheviks'', Yale University Press, pp. 24, 59</ref> Support was abruptly annulled in 1924, when ] came to power, after which psychoanalysis was denounced on ideological grounds.<ref>Miller (1998), p. 94.</ref> | |||
Some psychotherapists, however, still follow an approximately Freudian system of treatment. Many more have modified his approach, or joined one of the schools that branched from his original theories (see ]). Still others reject his theories entirely, although their practice may still reflect his influence. | |||
After helping found the ] in 1911, Ernest Jones returned to Britain from Canada in 1913 and founded the London Psychoanalytic Society. In 1919, he dissolved this organisation and, with its core membership purged of Jungian adherents, founded the ], serving as its president until 1944. The Institute of Psychoanalysis was established in 1924 and the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis was established in 1926, both under Jones's directorship.<ref>Maddox, Brenda (2006). ''Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones''. London: John Murray. pp. 147–79</ref> | |||
] today maintains the same ambivalent relationship with medicine and academia that Freud experienced during his life. | |||
The Vienna Ambulatorium (Clinic) was established in 1922 and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute was founded in 1924 under the directorship of ].<ref>Danto, Elizabeth Ann (2005). ''Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938''. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 151</ref> Ferenczi founded the Budapest Psychoanalytic Institute in 1913 and a clinic in 1929. | |||
=== Philosophy === | |||
While he saw himself as a scientist, he was greatly admired the philosopher. ] who was then the main supporter of subconscious and discussed empathy.<ref>Pigman, G.W. , The International journal of psycho-analysis, 1995 Apr;76 (Pt 2):237-56.</ref> Freud's theories have had a tremendous impact on the ]--especially on the ] and ]. In addition, many philosophers have discussed his theories and their implications, in the broader context of Western thought. Freud's model of the mind is often seen as a critical challenge to the ] model of rational ], which was a key element of much ]. | |||
Psychoanalytic societies and institutes were established in Switzerland (1919), France (1926), Italy (1932), the Netherlands (1933), Norway (1933), and in ] (Jerusalem, 1933) by Eitingon, who had fled Berlin after ] came to power.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 406</ref> The New York Psychoanalytic Institute was founded in 1931. | |||
* '''Rationality'''. While many enlightenment thinkers viewed rationality as both an unproblematic ideal and a defining feature of man, Freud's model of the mind drastically reduced the scope and power of reason. In Freud's view, reasoning occurs in the conscious mind--the ego--but this is only a small part of the whole. The mind also contains the hidden, irrational elements of id and superego, which lie outside of conscious control, drive behavior, and motivate conscious activities. As a result, these structures call into question humans' ability to act purely on the basis of reason, since lurking motives are also always at play. Moreover, this model of the mind makes rationality itself suspect, since it may be motivated by hidden urges or societal forces (e.g. defense mechanisms, where reasoning becomes "rationalizing"). | |||
The 1922 Berlin Congress was the last Freud attended.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 394</ref> By this time his speech had become seriously impaired by the prosthetic device he needed as a result of a series of operations on his cancerous jaw. He kept abreast of developments through regular correspondence with his principal followers and via the circular letters and meetings of the Secret Committee which he continued to attend. | |||
* '''Transparency of Self'''. Another common assumption in pre-Freudian philosophy was that people have immediate and unproblematic access to themselves. Emblematic of this position is ]' famous ], "''Cogito ergo sum''" ("I think, therefore I am"). For Freud, however, many central aspects of a person remain radically inaccessible to the conscious mind (without the aid of psychotherapy), which undermines the once unquestionable status of first-person knowledge. | |||
The Committee continued to function until 1927 by which time institutional developments within the IPA, such as the establishment of the International Training Commission, had addressed concerns about the transmission of psychoanalytic theory and practice. There remained, however, significant differences over the issue of lay analysis – i.e. the acceptance of non-medically qualified candidates for psychoanalytic training. Freud set out his case in favour in 1926 in his '']''. He was resolutely opposed by the American societies who expressed concerns over professional standards and the risk of litigation (though child analysts were made exempt). These concerns were also shared by some of his European colleagues. Eventually, an agreement was reached allowing societies autonomy in setting criteria for candidature.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 490–500</ref> | |||
=== Pop Culture === | |||
Freud has also had a remarkably powerful and lasting impact on popular culture. Many of his general psychological ideas have made their way into people's everyday thinking--for example, the idea that someone can be motivated by unconscious impulses, or the general idea that man contains a "beast" within, restrained only by the institutions of society. Some of his more specific ideas have also been popularized--"Freudian slips," "Oedipal complexes," and "anal" personality traits, for example, are frequently mentioned in non-technical discourse. | |||
In 1930, Freud received the ] in recognition of his contributions to psychology and German literary culture.<ref>Gay 2006, p. 571</ref> | |||
Since the early 1900s, Freud's ideas have often been represented explicitly or implicitly in a wide variety of art, literature, and film. Artistic figures famous for their Freudian overtones include: ], ], and many others.{{fact}} | |||
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===Patients=== | ||
Freud used pseudonyms in his case histories. Some patients known by pseudonyms were ] (Anna von Lieben); ] (Ida Bauer, 1882–1945); Frau Emmy von N. (Fanny Moser); Fräulein Elisabeth von R. (Ilona Weiss);<ref>Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. ''Freud's Women''. London: Penguin Books, 1992, p. 108</ref> Fräulein Katharina (Aurelia Kronich); Fräulein Lucy R.; ] (], 1903–1973); ] (Ernst Lanzer); Enos Fingy (Joshua Wild);<ref>Breger, Louis. ''Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision''. Wiley, 2011, p. 262</ref> and ] (Sergei Pankejeff). Other famous patients included ]; ]; ]; ], with whom Freud had only a single, extended consultation; ]; ];<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lynn |first=D.J. |year=2003 |title=Freud's psychoanalysis of Edith Banfield Jackson, 1930–1936 |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=609–25 |doi=10.1521/jaap.31.4.609.23009 |pmid=14714630}}</ref> and Albert Hirst.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lynn |first=D.J. |year=1997 |title=Freud's analysis of Albert Hirst, 1903–1910 |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=69–93 |doi=10.1353/bhm.1997.0045 |pmid=9086627 |s2cid=37708194}}</ref> | |||
===Cancer=== | |||
Although Freud's theories were quite influential, they have also come under widespread criticism during his lifetime and afterward. A paper by ], read in 1915 at a joint meeting of the ] and the New York Academy of Sciences , called Freud's dream theory "dangerously inaccurate" and noted that "rank confabulations...appear to hold water, psychoanalytically". ], writing in ''The Guardian'' in 2002, said "Philosophies that capture the imagination never wholly fade....But as to Freud's claims upon truth, the judgment of time seems to be running against him] ], said "I'm afraid doesn't hold up very well at all. It almost feels like a personal betrayal to say that. But every particular is wrong: the universality of the Oedipus complex, penis envy, infantile sexuality." A 2006 article in ] called him "history's most debunked doctor | |||
In 1917, Freud noticed a painful lesion on the roof of his mouth, but, after it receded, did not seek medical attention. By February 1923, the growth had spread, which was when Freud identified it as either ] or ] brought on by his smoking habit. Reluctant to give up smoking, he initially kept his symptoms a secret. Freud later consulted the ] Maximilian Steiner, who advised him to quit smoking while minimizing the lesion's implications. Shorter after, Freud met with Felix Deutsch, who was also reluctant to tell Freud that the growth was cancerous. He, too, described it as an instance of leukoplakia. Both men told Freud to give up smoking, and Deutsch told him to seek surgical treatment.<ref>Gay 1988, pp.418-419</ref> Freud was treated by Marcus Hajek, a ] whose competence he had previously questioned. Hajek performed an unnecessary cosmetic surgery in his clinic's outpatient department. Freud bled during and after the operation and may narrowly have escaped death. At a subsequent visit Deutsch saw that further surgery would be required but did not tell Freud he had cancer because he was worried that Freud might commit suicide.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 419–20</ref> | |||
=== Escape from Nazism === | |||
Some critics, rather than attacking the body of Freud's work, have delved into individual topics. For instance, ], has suggested that Freud's basic claim — that many of our conscious thoughts and actions are driven by unconscious desires and fears — should be rejected because it implicitly challenges the possibility of making universal and objective claims about the world. Some proponents of science conclude that this invalidates Freudian theory as a means of interpreting and explaining human behavior. | |||
In January 1933, the ] took control of Germany, and Freud's books were prominent among ]. Freud remarked to ]: "What progress we are making. In the ] they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 592–93.</ref> Freud underestimated the growing Nazi threat and remained determined to stay in Vienna, even following the ] of 13 March 1938 and the outbreaks of violent ] that ensued.<ref name="Gay618">Gay 2006, pp. 618–20, 624–25.</ref> Jones, the then president of the ] (IPA), flew into Vienna on 15 March determined to get Freud to change his mind and seek exile in Britain. This prospect and the shock of the arrest and interrogation of Anna Freud by the ] finally convinced Freud it was time to leave.<ref name=Gay618/> Jones left for London the following week with a list provided by Freud of the party of émigrés for whom immigration permits would be required. Back in London, Jones used his personal acquaintance with the Home Secretary, ], to expedite the granting of permits. There were seventeen in all, and work permits were provided where relevant. Jones also used his influence in scientific circles, persuading the president of the ], ], to write to the Foreign Secretary ], requesting to good effect that diplomatic pressure be applied in Berlin and Vienna on Freud's behalf. Freud also had support from American diplomats, notably his ex-patient and American ambassador to France, ]. Bullitt alerted U.S. President ] to the increased dangers facing the Freuds, resulting in the American consul-general in Vienna, ], arranging regular monitoring of Berggasse 19. He also intervened by phone during the Gestapo interrogation of Anna Freud.<ref>Cohen 2009, pp. 152–53.</ref> | |||
Another frequently criticized aspect of Freud's theories is his model of psychosexual development. Some have attacked Freud's claim that infants are sexual beings, and, implicitly, Freud's expanded notion of sexuality. Others have accepted Freud's expanded notion of sexuality, but have argued that this pattern of development is not universal, nor necessary for the development of a healthy adult. Instead, they have emphasized the social and environmental sources of patterns of development. Moreover, they call attention to ] Freud de-emphasized or ignored, such as class relations. This branch of Freudian critique owes a great deal to the work of ]. | |||
The departure from Vienna began in stages throughout April and May 1938. Freud's grandson, Ernst Halberstadt, and Freud's son Martin's wife and children left for Paris in April. Freud's sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, left for London on 5 May, Martin Freud the following week and Freud's daughter Mathilde and her husband, Robert Hollitscher, on 24 May.<ref>Cohen 2009, pp. 157–59.</ref> | |||
Freud has also come under fire from many ] critics. Freud was an early champion of both sexual freedom and education for women (Freud, "]"). Some feminists, however, have argued that at worst his views of women's sexual development set the progress of women in ] back decades, and that at best they lent themselves to the ideology of female inferiority. Believing as he did that women are a kind of mutilated male, who must learn to accept their "deformity" (the "lack" of a penis) and submit to some imagined biological imperative, he contributed to the vocabulary of ]. Terms such as "]" and "]" (both used to describe women who attempted to excel in any field outside the home) contributed to discouraging women from obtaining education or entering any field dominated by men, until the 1970s. Some of Freud's most criticized statements appear in his 'Fragment of Analysis' on ] such as "''This was surely just the situation to call up distinct feelings of sexual excitement in a girl of fourteen''" in reference to Dora being kissed by a 'young man of prepossessing appearance' (S.E. 7. pp28) implying the passivity of female sexuality and his statement "''I should without question consider a person hysterical in whom an occasion for sexual excitement elicited feelings that were preponderantly or exclusively unpleasurable''" ''(ibid)'' | |||
By the end of the month, arrangements for Freud's own departure for London had become stalled, mired in a legally tortuous and financially extortionate process of negotiation with the Nazi authorities. Under regulations imposed on the Jewish population by the Nazis, a '']'' was appointed to manage Freud's assets and those of the IPA. Freud was allocated to Dr Anton Sauerwald, who had studied chemistry at ] under Professor ], an old friend of Freud's. Sauerwald read Freud's books to further learn about him and became sympathetic. Though required to disclose details of all Freud's bank accounts to his superiors and to arrange the destruction of the historic library of books housed at the IPA, Sauerwald did neither. Instead, he removed evidence of Freud's foreign bank accounts to his own safe-keeping and arranged the storage of the IPA library in the Austrian National Library, where it remained until the end of the war.<ref>Cohen 2009, p. 160.</ref> | |||
On the other hand, ] such as ], ], ], ], and ] have argued that psychoanalytic theory is essentially related to the feminist project and must, like other theoretical traditions, be adapted by women to free it from vestiges of sexism. Freud's views are still being questioned by people concerned about women's equality. Another feminist who finds potential use of Freud's theories in the feminist movement is ]. In "Freudianism: The Misguided Feminism", she discusses how Freudianism is essentially completely accurate, with the exception of one crucial detail: everywhere that Freud writes "penis", the word should be replaced with "power". | |||
], {{nowrap|20 Maresfield Gardens,}} ], north London]] | |||
Dr. J. Von Schneidt speculated (with little evidence) that most of Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct of his cocaine use. Cocaine enhances dopaminergic neurotransmission increasing sexual interest and obsessive thinking. Chronic ] use can produce unusual thinking patterns due to the depletion of ] levels in the prefrontal ]. | |||
]) at his Hampstead home]] | |||
Though Sauerwald's intervention lessened the financial burden of the ] on Freud's declared assets, other substantial charges were levied concerning the debts of the IPA and the valuable collection of antiquities Freud possessed. Unable to access his own accounts, Freud turned to ], the most eminent and wealthy of his French followers, who had travelled to Vienna to offer her support, and it was she who made the necessary funds available.<ref>Cohen 2009, p. 166</ref> This allowed Sauerwald to sign the necessary exit visas for Freud, his wife Martha, and daughter Anna. They left Vienna on the ] on 4 June, accompanied by their housekeeper and a doctor, arriving in Paris the following day, where they stayed as guests of Marie Bonaparte, before travelling overnight to London, arriving at ] on 6 June. | |||
Finally, Freud's theories are often criticized for not being real science. This objection was raised most famously by ], who claimed that all proper ] must be potentially ]. Popper argued that no experiment or observation could ever falsify Freud's theories of psychology (e.g. someone who denies having an Oedipal complex is interpreted as repressing it), and thus they could not be considered scientific. | |||
Among those soon to call on Freud in London to pay their respects were ], ], ] and ], and ]. Representatives of the ] called with the Society's Charter for Freud, who had been elected a ] in 1936, to sign himself into membership. Marie Bonaparte arrived near the end of June to discuss the fate of Freud's four elderly sisters in Vienna. Her subsequent attempts to get them exit visas failed; they all were murdered in ].<ref>Cohen 2009, pp. 178, 205–07.</ref> | |||
==Patients== | |||
This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: | |||
In early 1939, Sauerwald arrived in London in mysterious circumstances, where he met Freud's brother Alexander.<ref>Schur, Max (1972) ''Freud: Living and Dying'', London: Hogarth Press, pp. 498–99.</ref> He was tried and imprisoned in 1945 by an Austrian court for his activities as a Nazi Party official. Responding to a plea from his wife, Anna Freud wrote to confirm that Sauerwald "used his office as our appointed commissar in such a manner as to protect my father". Her intervention helped secure his release in 1947.<ref>Cohen 2009, p. 213.</ref> | |||
] | |||
The Freud's new family home was established in ] at ] in September 1938. Freud's architect son, Ernst, designed modifications of the building including the installation of an electric lift. The study and library areas were arranged to create the atmosphere and visual impression of Freud's Vienna consulting rooms.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Welter |first=Volker |title=Ernst L. Freud, Architect |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-85745-233-7 |location=New York |pages=151}}</ref> He continued to see patients there until the terminal stages of his illness. He also worked on his last books, '']'', published in German in 1938 and in English the following year<ref name="Chaney62">Chaney, Edward (2006). 'Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and Religion', ''Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines'', eds. M. Ascari and A. Corrado. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, Chaney 'Freudian Egypt', ''The London Magazine'' (April/May 2006), pp. 62–69, and Chaney, 'Moses and Monotheism, by Sigmund Freud', 'The Canon', ''THE'' (''Times Higher Education''), 3–9 June 2010, No. 1, 950, p. 53.</ref> and the uncompleted '']'', which was published posthumously. | |||
* ] = Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936) | |||
* Cäcilie M. = Anna von Lieben | |||
* Dora = ] (1882–1945) | |||
* Frau Emmy von N. = Fanny Moser | |||
* Fräulein Elizabeth von R. | |||
* Fräulein Katharina = Aurelia Kronich | |||
* Fräulein Lucy R. | |||
* ] = ] (1903–1973) | |||
* ] = Ernst Lanzer (1878–1914) | |||
* ] = Sergei Pankejeff (1887–1979) | |||
===Death=== | |||
People on whom psychoanalytic observations were published but who were not patients: | |||
] at ], London]] | |||
By mid-September 1939, Freud's ] was causing him increasingly severe pain and had been declared inoperable. The last book he read, ]'s '']'', prompted reflections on his own increasing frailty, and a few days later he turned to his doctor, friend, and fellow refugee, ], reminding him that they had previously discussed the terminal stages of his illness: "Schur, you remember our 'contract' not to leave me in the lurch when the time had come. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense." When Schur replied that he had not forgotten, Freud said, "I thank you," and then, "Talk it over with Anna, and if she thinks it's right, then make an end of it." Anna Freud wanted to postpone her father's death, but Schur convinced her it was pointless to keep him alive; on 21 and 22 September, he administered doses of morphine that resulted in Freud's death at around 3 am on 23 September 1939.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 650–51</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Index entry |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=1i7bxu%2FFMHIpo2b6nEloZg&scan=1 |access-date=2 September 2016 |website=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}}</ref> However, discrepancies in the accounts Schur gave of his role in Freud's final hours led to inconsistencies between Freud's main biographers. A revised account proposes that Schur was absent from Freud's deathbed when a third and final dose of morphine was administered by Dr. Josephine Stross, a colleague of Anna Freud, leading to Freud's death at around midnight on 23 September 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lacoursiere |first=Roy B. |year=2008 |title=Freud's Death: Historical Truth and Biographical Fictions |journal=American Imago |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=107–28 |doi=10.1353/aim.0.0003 |s2cid=170247119}}</ref> | |||
Three days after his death, Freud's body was cremated at ], with ] acting as funeral directors, on the instructions of his son, Ernst.<ref name="sydney1">{{Cite web |title=Sigmund Freud's Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind |url=http://sydney.edu.au/museums/publications/catalogues/freud-catalogue.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222133332/http://sydney.edu.au/museums/publications/catalogues/freud-catalogue.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2014 |access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> Funeral orations were given by Ernest Jones and the Austrian author ]. Freud's ashes were later placed in ] on a plinth designed by his son, Ernst,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Welter |first=Volker M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9HFNKIU44wC&q=golders+green+columbarium+freud&pg=PA205 |title=Ernst L. Freud, Architect |date=1 October 2011 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-0-85745-234-4}}</ref> in a sealed<ref name=sydney1/> ] ] painted with ] that Freud had received as a gift from Marie Bonaparte, and which he had kept in his study in Vienna for many years. After his wife, Martha, died in 1951, her ashes were also placed in the urn.<ref>Burke, Janine ''The Sphinx at the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis'', New York: Walker and Co. 2006, p. 340.</ref> | |||
* ] (1842–1911) | |||
* ] (1856–1924) (co-authored with and primarily written by ]) | |||
==Ideas== | |||
Other patients: | |||
===Early work=== | |||
* ] (1886–1961) | |||
Freud began his study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1873.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Strutzmann |first=Helmut |title=Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7657-0547-1 |editor-last=Joseph P. Merlino |location=Plymouth |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |page=33 |chapter=An overview of Freud's life |editor-last2=Marilyn S. Jacobs |editor-last3=Judy Ann Kaplan |editor-last4=K. Lynne Moritz |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqNPvtl_GhcC&pg=PA33}}</ref> He took almost nine years to finish due to his interest in neurophysiological research, specifically investigation of the sexual anatomy of eels and the physiology of the fish nervous system, and because of his interest in studying philosophy with ]. He entered private practice in neurology for financial reasons, receiving his M.D. in 1881 at the age of 25.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of Psychiatry |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/62292238/History-of-Psychiatry |access-date=6 February 2011}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Amongst his principal concerns in the 1880s was the anatomy of the brain, specifically the ]. He intervened in the important debates about ] with his monograph of 1891, ''Zur Auffassung der Aphasien'', in which he coined the term ] and counselled against a too locationist view of the explanation of neurological deficits. Like his contemporary ], he emphasized brain function rather than brain structure. | |||
* ] | |||
* ] (1860–1911) | |||
Freud was also an early researcher in the field of ], which was then known as "cerebral paralysis". He published several medical papers on the topic and showed that the disease existed long before other researchers of the period began to study it. He suggested that ], the man who first identified cerebral palsy, was wrong about lack of oxygen during birth being a cause. Instead, he suggested that complications in birth were a symptom. | |||
==Notes== | |||
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The origin of Freud's early work with psychoanalysis can be linked to ]. Freud credited Breuer with opening the way to the discovery of the psychoanalytical method by his treatment of the case of ] In November 1880, Breuer was called in to treat a highly intelligent 21-year-old woman (]) for a persistent cough and hallucinations that he diagnosed as hysterical. He found that while nursing her dying father, she had developed some transitory symptoms, including visual disorders and paralysis and contractures of limbs, which he also diagnosed as hysterical. Breuer began to see his patient almost every day as the symptoms increased and became more persistent, and observed that she entered states of ''absence''. He found that when, with his encouragement, she told fantasy stories in her evening states of ''absence'' her condition improved, and most of her symptoms had disappeared by April 1881. Following the death of her father in that month her condition deteriorated. Breuer recorded that some of the symptoms eventually remitted spontaneously and that full recovery was achieved by inducing her to recall events that had precipitated the occurrence of a specific symptom.<ref>Hirschmuller, Albrecht. ''The Life and Work of Josef Breuer.'' New York: New York University Press, 1989, pp. 101–16, 276–307.</ref> In the years immediately following Breuer's treatment, Anna O. spent three short periods in sanatoria with the diagnosis "hysteria" with "somatic symptoms",<ref>Hirschmuller, Albrecht. The Life and Work of Josef Breuer. New York: New York University Press, 1989, p. 115.</ref> and some authors have challenged Breuer's published account of a cure.<ref>Ellenberger, E.H., "The Story of 'Anna O.': A Critical Account with New Data", J. of the Hist. of the Behavioral Sciences, 8 (3), 1972, pp. 693–717.</ref><ref>Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. ''Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification.'' London: Routledge, 1996.</ref><ref>Macmillan, Malcolm. ''Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997, pp. 3–24.</ref> Richard Skues rejects this interpretation, which he sees as stemming from both Freudian and anti-psychoanalytical revisionism — revisionism that regards both Breuer's narrative of the case as unreliable and his treatment of Anna O. as a failure.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Gavin |date=25 November 2009 |title=Book Review: Richard A. Skues (2009) Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Reopening a Closed Case |journal=History of Psychiatry |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=509–10 |doi=10.1177/0957154X090200040205 |s2cid=162260138}} Skues, Richard A. ''Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Reopening a Closed Case.'' Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.</ref> | |||
==References== | |||
*Altschule, M. (1997). ''Origins of Concepts in Human Behavior''. New York: Wiley. 1977. | |||
*Corey, G. (2001). ''Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy''. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. | |||
*Gay, P. (1988). ''Freud: A Life for Our Time''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. | |||
* Scheidt, Jürgen vom (1973). . ''Psyche''. pp. 385–430. | |||
===Seduction theory=== | |||
==Bibliography== | |||
{{main|Freud's seduction theory}} | |||
===Major works by Freud=== | |||
In the early 1890s, Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by what he called his "pressure technique" and his newly developed analytic technique of interpretation and reconstruction. According to Freud's later accounts of this period, as a result of his use of this procedure, most of his patients in the mid-1890s reported early ]. He believed these accounts, which he used as the basis for his ], but then he came to believe that some of them were fantasies. He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of infantile masturbation, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies, stemming from innate ] that are sexual and destructive in nature.<ref>Freud, ''Standard Edition'', vol. 7, 1906, p. 274; ''S.E. 14'', 1914, p. 18; '' S.E. 20'', 1925, p. 34; ''S.E. 22'', 1933, p. 120; Schimek, J. G. (1987), Fact and Fantasy in the Seduction Theory: A Historical Review. ''Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association'', xxxv: 937–65; {{Cite journal |last=Esterson |first=Allen |year=1998 |title=Jeffrey Masson and Freud's seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths |url=http://human-nature.com/esterson |url-status=live |journal=History of the Human Sciences |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=1–21 |doi=10.1177/095269519801100101 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103235211/http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/ |archive-date=3 November 2008 |s2cid=170827479}}</ref> | |||
Another version of events focuses on Freud's proposing that unconscious memories of infantile sexual abuse were at the root of the psychoneuroses in letters to Fliess in October 1895, before he reported that he had actually discovered such abuse among his patients.<ref>Masson (ed.), 1985, pp. 141, 144. Esterson, Allen (1998), Jeffrey Masson and Freud's seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths. ''History of the Human Sciences'', 11 (1), {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828102024/http://www.esterson.org/Masson_and_Freuds_seduction_theory.htm |date=28 August 2008 }}</ref> In the first half of 1896, Freud published three papers, which led to his ], stating that he had uncovered, in all of his current patients, deeply repressed memories of sexual abuse in early childhood.<ref>Freud, ''Standard Edition 3'', (1896a), (1896b), (1896c); Israëls, H. & Schatzman, M. (1993), The Seduction Theory. ''History of Psychiatry'', iv: 23–59; Esterson, Allen (1998).</ref> In these papers, Freud recorded that his patients were not consciously aware of these memories, and must therefore be present as ''unconscious memories'' if they were to result in hysterical symptoms or obsessional neurosis. The patients were subjected to considerable pressure to "reproduce" infantile sexual abuse "scenes" that Freud was convinced had been repressed into the unconscious.<ref>Freud, Sigmund (1896c). The Aetiology of Hysteria. ''Standard Edition'', Vol. 3, p. 204; Schimek, J. G. (1987). Fact and Fantasy in the Seduction Theory: A Historical Review. ''Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association'', xxxv: 937–65; Toews, J. E. (1991). Historicizing Psychoanalysis: Freud in His Time and for Our Time, ''Journal of Modern History'', vol. 63 (pp. 504–45), p. 510, n. 12; McNally, R. J. ''Remembering Trauma'', Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 159–69.</ref> Patients were generally unconvinced that their experiences of Freud's clinical procedure indicated actual sexual abuse. He reported that even after a supposed "reproduction" of sexual scenes the patients assured him emphatically of their disbelief.<ref>Freud, ''Standard Edition 3'', 1896c, pp. 204, 211; Schimek, J. G. (1987); Esterson, Allen (1998); Eissler, 2001, pp. 114–15; McNally, R. J. (2003).</ref> | |||
* '']'' (with ]) (''Studien über Hysterie'', 1895) | |||
As well as his pressure technique, Freud's clinical procedures involved analytic inference and the symbolic interpretation of symptoms to trace back to memories of infantile sexual abuse.<ref>Freud, ''Standard Edition 3'', 1896c, pp. 191–93; Cioffi, Frank. (1998 ). Was Freud a Liar? ''Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience.'' Chicago: Open Court, pp. 199–204; Schimek, J. G. (1987); Esterson, Allen (1998); McNally, (2003), pp, 159–69.</ref> His claim of one hundred percent confirmation of his theory only served to reinforce previously expressed reservations from his colleagues about the validity of findings obtained through his suggestive techniques.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Borch-Jacobsen |first=Mikkel |year=1996 |title=Neurotica: Freud and the Seduction Theory. ''October'', vol. 76, Spring 1996, MIT, pp. 15–43; Hergenhahn, B.R. (1997), ''An Introduction to the History of Psychology'', Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, pp. 484–485; Esterson, Allen (2002). The myth of Freud's ostracism by the medical community in 1896–1905: Jeffrey Masson's Assault on Truth |url=http://www.esterson.org/Myth_of_Freuds_ostracism.htm |url-status=live |journal=History of Psychology |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=115–34 |doi=10.1037/1093-4510.5.2.115 |pmid=12096757 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828101945/http://www.esterson.org/Myth_of_Freuds_ostracism.htm |archive-date=28 August 2008}}</ref> Freud subsequently showed inconsistency as to whether his seduction theory was still compatible with his later findings.<ref name="thepsychologist">Andrews, B., and Brewin, C. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409174924/http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-13/edition-12/what-did-freud-get-right-0 |date=9 April 2015 }}</ref> In an addendum to ''The Aetiology of Hysteria'' he stated: "All this is true , but it must be remembered that at the time I wrote it I had not yet freed myself from my overvaluation of reality and my low valuation of phantasy".<ref>Freud, S. 1924/1961, p. 204 ''The aetiology of hysteria''. In J. Strachey (ed. and trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 3, pp. 189–224). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1896, addendum originally published 1924)</ref> Some years later Freud explicitly rejected the claim of his colleague Ferenczi that his patients' reports of sexual molestation were actual memories instead of fantasies, and he tried to dissuade Ferenczi from making his views public.<ref name=thepsychologist/> Karin Ahbel-Rappe concludes that "Freud marked out and started down a trail of investigation into the nature of the experience of infantile incest and its impact on the human psyche, and then abandoned this direction for the most part."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ahbel-Rappe |first=K |year=2006 |title='I no longer believe': did Freud abandon the seduction theory? |journal=Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=171–99 |doi=10.1177/00030651060540010101 |pmid=16602351 |s2cid=25379440}}</ref> | |||
* '']'' (''Die Traumdeutung'', 1899 ) | |||
===Cocaine=== | |||
* '']'' (''Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens'', 1901) | |||
As a medical researcher, Freud was an early user and proponent of ] as a stimulant as well as ]. He believed that cocaine was a cure for many mental and physical problems, and in his 1884 paper "On Coca" he extolled its virtues. Between 1883 and 1887 he wrote several articles recommending medical applications, including its use as an ]. He narrowly missed out on obtaining ] for discovering its ] properties of which he was aware but had mentioned only in passing.<ref>Jones, Ernest. ''Sigmund Freud: Life and Work'', vol. 1. London: Hogarth Press, 1953, pp. 94–96.</ref> (], a colleague of Freud's in Vienna, received that distinction in 1884 after reporting to a medical society the ways cocaine could be used in delicate eye surgery.) Freud also recommended cocaine as a cure for ] addiction.<ref>Byck, Robert. ''Cocaine Papers by Sigmund Freud''. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Byck. New York, Stonehill, 1974.</ref> He had introduced cocaine to his friend ], who had become addicted to morphine taken to relieve years of excruciating nerve pain resulting from an infection acquired after injuring himself while performing an autopsy. His claim that Fleischl-Marxow was cured of his addiction was premature, though he never acknowledged that he had been at fault. Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of ], and soon returned to using morphine, dying a few years later still suffering from intolerable pain.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012005618/http://lrb.co.uk/v22/n08/borc01_.html |date=12 October 2007 }} Review of Israëls, Han. ''Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychoanalyse aus der Lüge.'' Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1999.</ref> | |||
The application as an anaesthetic turned out to be one of the few safe uses of cocaine, and as reports of addiction and overdose began to filter in from many places in the world, Freud's medical reputation became somewhat tarnished.<ref>Thornton, Elizabeth. ''Freud and Cocaine: The Freudian Fallacy.'' London: Blond and Briggs, 1983, pp. 45–46.</ref> After the "Cocaine Episode"<ref>Jones, E., 1953, pp. 86–108.</ref> Freud ceased to publicly recommend the use of the drug, but continued to take it himself occasionally for depression, ] and nasal inflammation during the early 1890s, before discontinuing its use in 1896.<ref>Masson, Jeffrey M. (ed.) ''The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904.'' Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 49, 106, 126–27, 132, 201.</ref> | |||
* '']'' (''Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie'', 1905) | |||
===Unconscious=== | |||
* '']'' (''Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten'', 1905) | |||
{{Main|Unconscious mind}} | |||
The concept of the unconscious, which Freud regarded as already well known amongst poets, was important to his theories and ideas; he also believed that it was his responsibility to ensure that it received scientific recognition in the field of psychology.<ref name="WollheimChap" /> | |||
Freud states explicitly that his concept of the unconscious as he first formulated it was based on the theory of repression. In his formulations of the concept of repression in his 1915 paper 'Repression' (] XIV) Freud introduces the distinction in the unconscious between primary repression linked to the universal taboo on incest ('innately present originally') and repression ('after expulsion') that was a product of an individual's life history ('acquired in the course of the ego's development') in which something that was at one point conscious is rejected or eliminated from consciousness.<ref name="WollheimChap">Wollheim, Richard (1971). ''Freud''. London, Fontana Press, pp. 157–76</ref> | |||
* '']'' (''Totem und Tabu'', 1913) | |||
In his account of the development and modification of his theory of unconscious mental processes he sets out in his 1915 paper 'The Unconscious' (] XIV), Freud identifies the three perspectives he employs: the dynamic, the economic and the topographical. | |||
* '']'' (''Zur Einführung des Narzißmus'', 1914) | |||
The dynamic perspective concerns firstly the constitution of the unconscious by repression and secondly the process of "censorship" which maintains unwanted, anxiety-inducing thoughts as such. Here Freud is drawing on observations from his earliest clinical work in the treatment of hysteria. | |||
* '']'' (''Jenseits des Lustprinzips'', 1920) | |||
In the economic perspective the focus is on the trajectories of the repressed contents ("the vicissitudes of sexual impulses") as they undergo complex transformations in the process of both symptom formation and normal unconscious thought such as dreams and slips of the tongue. These were topics Freud explored in detail in '']'' and '']''. | |||
* '']'' (''Das Ich und das Es'', 1923) | |||
Whereas both these former perspectives focus on the unconscious as it is about to enter consciousness, the topographical perspective represents a shift in which the systemic properties of the unconscious, its characteristic processes, and modes of operation such as ] and ], are placed in the foreground. | |||
* '']'' (''Die Zukunft einer Illusion'', 1927) | |||
This "first topography" presents a model of psychic structure comprising three systems: | |||
* '']'' (''Das Unbehagen in der Kultur'', 1930) | |||
* The System Ucs – the unconscious: "primary process" mentation governed by the ] characterised by "exemption from mutual contradiction,{{nbsp}}... mobility of cathexes, timelessness, and replacement of external by psychical reality." ('The Unconscious' (1915) ] XIV). | |||
* The System Pcs – the preconscious in which the unconscious thing-presentations of the primary process are bound by the secondary processes of language (word presentations), a prerequisite for their becoming available to consciousness. | |||
* The System Cns – conscious thought governed by the reality principle. | |||
In his later work, notably in '']'' (1923), a second topography is introduced comprising ], which is superimposed on the first without replacing it.<ref>Mannoni, Octave, ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', London: Verso 2015 , pp. 137–140.</ref> In this later formulation of the concept of the unconscious the ]<ref name=id>{{cite book |first1=Jean |last1=Laplanche |first2=Jean-Bertrand |last2=Pontalis |author-link1=Jean Laplanche |author-link2=Jean-Bertrand Pontalis |chapter=Id |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RptYDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Id+%3D+D.\+Es%22&pg=PT363 |title=The Language of Psychoanalysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RptYDwAAQBAJ |publisher=] |location=] |year=2018 |orig-year=1973 |isbn=978-0-429-92124-7}}</ref> comprises a reservoir of instincts or ], a portion of them being hereditary or innate, a portion repressed or acquired. As such, from the economic perspective, the id is the prime source of psychical energy and from the dynamic perspective it conflicts with the ]<ref name=ego>Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (2018) . "".</ref> and the ]<ref name=superego>Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (2018) . "".</ref> which, genetically speaking, are diversifications of the id. | |||
* '']'' (''Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion'', 1939) | |||
===Dreams=== | |||
* '']'' (''Abriß der Psychoanalyse'', 1940) | |||
{{Main|The Interpretation of Dreams}}In Freud's theory dreams are instigated by the daily occurrences and thoughts of everyday life. In what Freud called the "dream-work", these "secondary process" thoughts ("word presentations"), governed by the rules of language and the reality principle, become subject to the "primary process" of unconscious thought ("thing presentations") governed by the pleasure principle, wish gratification and the repressed sexual scenarios of childhood. Because of the disturbing nature of the latter and other repressed thoughts and desires which may have become linked to them, the dream-work operates a censorship function, disguising by distortion, displacement, and condensation the repressed thoughts to preserve sleep.<ref>Mannoni, Octave, ''Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious'', London: Verso 2015 , pp. 55–58.</ref> | |||
In the clinical setting, Freud encouraged free association to the dream's manifest content, as recounted in the dream narrative, to facilitate interpretative work on its latent content – the repressed thoughts and fantasies – and also on the underlying mechanisms and structures operative in the dream-work. As Freud developed his theoretical work on dreams he went beyond his theory of dreams as wish-fulfillments to arrive at an emphasis on dreams as "nothing other than a particular form of thinking.{{nbsp}}... It is the dream-work that creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming".<ref>Freud, Sigmund ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1976 ) Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, p. 650.</ref> | |||
===Books about Freud and psychoanalysis=== | |||
* ] : "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.", Publisher: Basic Books, 1981, ISBN 0-465-04015-2 | |||
* "The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939, R. Andrew Paskauskas (Editor), Riccardo Steiner (Introduction), Publisher: Belknap Press; Reprint edition 1995, ISBN 0-674-15424-X | |||
* "The Language of Psycho-Analysis" , ] et J.B. Pontalis, Editeur: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974, ISBN 0-393-01105-4 | |||
* "Sigmund Freud and ]" : Letters" Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 1985), ISBN 0-393-30261-X | |||
* ] : "The Freud Journal" , Publisher: Texas Bookman, 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0022-2 | |||
* ] : "Destruction as cause of becoming", 1993, ASIN B0006RF20A | |||
* ] : "The Psychoanalytic Revolution", Publisher: Avon Books; Discus ed edition, 1968, ASIN B0007EMI90 | |||
* ] : "Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory" Publisher: Vintage; Vintage edition, 1983, ISBN 0-394-71036-3 | |||
* ]: "The Work of the Negative" by Andre Green, Andrew Weller (Translator), Publisher: Free Association Books, 1999, ISBN 1-85343-470-1 | |||
* André Green: "On Private Madness", Publisher: International Universities Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8236-3853-7 | |||
* André Green: "The Chains of Eros", Publisher: Karnac Books, 2002, ISBN 1-85575-960-8 | |||
* André Green: "Psychoanalysis: A Paradigm For Clinical Thinking" Publisher: Free Association Books, 2005, ISBN 1-85343-773-5 | |||
* John Farrell. ''Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion'' (NYU Press, 1996). A vigorous account of the relations between Freud's logic, rhetoric, and personality, as well as his relations with literary sources like Cervantes, Goethe, and Swift. | |||
* Rieff, Philip. ''Freud: The Mind of the Moralist'', 3d ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979). | |||
* Roazen, Paul. ''Freud and His Followers'' (Random House, 1975). A rich study of the development of psychoanalysis, based upon many personal interviews. | |||
*] (1992). ''Freud on Women: A Reader''. Norton. ISBN 0-393-30870-7. | |||
*Anthony Bateman and Jeremy Holmes, ''Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory & Practice'' (London: Routledge, 1995) | |||
* Isbister, J. N. "Freud, An Introduction to his Life and Work" Publisher: Polity Press: Cambridge, Oxford. (1985) | |||
*], ''The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory'', Ballantine Books (November 2003), ISBN 0-345-45279-8 | |||
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===Psychosexual development=== | ||
{{Main|Psychosexual development}} | |||
Freud's theory of psychosexual development proposes that following on from the initial ] of infantile sexuality, the sexual "drives" pass through the distinct developmental phases of the ], the ], and the ]. Though these phases then give way to a ] of reduced sexual interest and activity (from the age of five to puberty, approximately), they leave a "perverse" and bisexual residue which persists during the formation of ]. Freud argued that ] and ] could be explained in terms of fixation or regression to these phases whereas adult character and cultural creativity could achieve a ] of their perverse residue.<ref>Mannoni 2015 , pp. 93–97.</ref> | |||
After Freud's later development of the theory of the ] this normative developmental trajectory becomes formulated in terms of the child's renunciation of incestuous desires under the fantasised threat of (or fantasised fact of, in the case of the girl) ].<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 515–18</ref> The "dissolution" of the Oedipus complex is then achieved when the child's rivalrous identification with the parental figure is transformed into the pacifying identifications of the ] which assume both similarity and difference and acknowledge the separateness and autonomy of the other.<ref>Cavell, Marcia ''The Psychoanalytic Mind'', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1996, p. 225.</ref> | |||
* ], ''What Man Has Made of Man: A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology'' (New York: Longmans, Green, 1937). (A philosophical critique from an Aristotelian/Thomistic point of view.) | |||
Freud hoped to prove that his model was universally valid and turned to ancient mythology and contemporary ethnography for comparative material arguing that totemism reflected a ritualized enactment of a tribal Oedipal conflict.<ref>{{cite book|last=Paul|first=Robert A.|title=The Cambridge Companion to Freud|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-37779-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4UNrJlLGjoC&pg=PA274|editor=James Neu |page=274|chapter=Freud's anthropology}}</ref> | |||
* Cioffi, Frank. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1998. | |||
===Id, ego, and super-ego=== | |||
* ] and ], ''Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'', trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane (London and New York: Continuum, 2004). (This first volume of the famous two-part work (also subtitled ''Capitalism and Schizophrenia'') ]ises Freud's argument that the Oedipal complex determines subjectivity. It is also, therefore, a staunch critique of the ]ian 'return to Freud.) | |||
{{Main|Id, ego and super-ego}} | |||
] metaphor is often used to explain the psyche's parts in relation to one another.]] | |||
Freud proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, ego, and super-ego. Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle'', and fully elaborated upon it in '']'' (1923), in which he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (i.e., conscious, unconscious and preconscious). The id is the unconscious portion of the psyche that operates on the "pleasure principle" and is the source of basic impulses and drives; it seeks immediate pleasure and gratification.<ref name=Hothersall290>Hothersall, D. 2004. "History of Psychology", 4th ed., Mcgraw-Hill: NY p. 290</ref> Freud acknowledged that his use of the term ''Id'' (''das Es'', "the It") derives from the writings of ].<ref name=id/><ref>Freud, S. ''The Ego and the Id'', ''Standard Edition 19'', pp. 7, 23.</ref> | |||
* ], ''The Discovery of the ]: the History and Evolution of Dynamic ]'' (London: Penguin, 1970). (An extensive account and sensitive critique of Freudian metapsychology.) (Swiss link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/Henri_F._Ellenberger) | |||
The super-ego is the moral component of the psyche.<ref name=superego/> The rational ego attempts to exact a balance between the impractical ] of the id and the equally impractical moralism of the super-ego;<ref name=ego/> it is the part of the psyche that is usually reflected most directly in a person's actions. When overburdened or threatened by its tasks, it may employ ]s including ], repression, undoing, rationalization, and ]. This concept is usually represented by the "Iceberg Model".<ref>{{cite web|last=Heffner|first=Christopher|title=Freud's Structural and Topographical Models of Personality|url=http://allpsych.com/psychology101/ego.html|website=Psychology 101|access-date=5 September 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110913161450/http://allpsych.com/psychology101/ego.html|archive-date=13 September 2011}}</ref> This model represents the roles the id, ego, and super-ego play in relation to conscious and unconscious thought. | |||
* Esterson, Allen, "Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud." Chicago: Open Court, 1993. | |||
Freud compared the relationship between the ego and the id to that between a charioteer and his horses: the horses provide the energy and drive, while the charioteer provides direction.<ref name=Hothersall290/> | |||
* ] and Wilson, G. D. ''The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories'', Methuen, London (1973). | |||
===Life and death drives=== | |||
* Eysenck, Hans, ''Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire'' (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1986). | |||
{{Main|Libido|Death drive|Repetition compulsion}} | |||
Freud believed that the human psyche is subject to two conflicting drives: the life drive or ] and the ]. The life drive was also termed "Eros" and the death drive "Thanatos", although Freud did not use the latter term; "Thanatos" was introduced in this context by ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Ernest |author-link=Ernest Jones |title=The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nwIAQAAIAAJ |year=1957 |orig-year=1953 |publisher=] |location=New York City |page=273 |quote=It is a little odd that Freud himself never, except in conversation, used for the death instinct the term ''Thanatos'', one which has become so popular since. At first, he used the terms "death instinct" and "destructive instinct" indiscriminately, alternating between them, but in his discussion with Einstein about war, he made the distinction that the former is directed against the self and the latter, derived from it, is directed outward. Stekel had in 1909 used the word Thanatos to signify a death wish, but it was Federn who introduced it in the present context.}}</ref><ref>Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (2018) . "".</ref> Freud hypothesized that libido is a form of mental energy with which processes, structures, and object-representations are invested.<ref>Rycroft, Charles. ''A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''. London: Penguin Books, 1995, p. 95.</ref> | |||
In '']'' (1920), Freud inferred the existence of a death drive. Its premise was a regulatory principle that has been described as "the principle of psychic inertia", "the Nirvana principle",<ref>Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (2018) . ".</ref> and "the conservatism of instinct". Its background was Freud's earlier ''Project for a Scientific Psychology'', where he had defined the principle governing the mental apparatus as its tendency to divest itself of quantity or to reduce tension to zero. Freud had been obliged to abandon that definition, since it proved adequate only to the most rudimentary kinds of mental functioning, and replaced the idea that the apparatus tends toward a level of zero tension with the idea that it tends toward a minimum level of tension.<ref name=Wollheim>Wollheim, Richard. ''Freud''. London, Fontana Press, pp. 184–86.</ref> | |||
*Hobson, J. Allan Hobson, ''Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-19-280482-0. (Critique of Freud's dream theory in terms of current neuroscience) | |||
Freud in effect readopted the original definition in ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle'', this time applying it to a different principle. He asserted that on certain occasions the mind acts as though it could eliminate tension, or in effect to reduce itself to a state of extinction; his key evidence for this was the existence of the ]. Examples of such repetition included the dream life of traumatic neurotics and children's play. In the phenomenon of repetition, Freud saw a psychic trend to work over earlier impressions, to master them and derive pleasure from them, a trend that was before the pleasure principle but not opposed to it. In addition to that trend, there was also a principle at work that was opposed to, and thus "beyond" the pleasure principle. If repetition is a necessary element in the binding of energy or adaptation, when carried to inordinate lengths it becomes a means of abandoning adaptations and reinstating earlier or less evolved psychic positions. By combining this idea with the hypothesis that all repetition is a form of discharge, Freud concluded that the compulsion to repeat is an effort to restore a state that is both historically primitive and marked by the total draining of energy: death.<ref name=Wollheim/> This has been described by some scholars as "metaphysical biology".<ref>{{cite book |last=Schuster |first=Aaron |title=The Trouble with Pleasure. Deleuze and Psychoanalysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWiLCwAAQBAJ |year=2016 |publisher=] |location=] |isbn=978-0-262-52859-7 |page=}}</ref> | |||
* Johnston, Thomas, ''Freud and Political Thought'' (New York: Citadel, 1965). (One of the more accessible accounts of the import of Freudianism for political theory.) | |||
===Melancholia=== | |||
* ], ''The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings'' (Ithaca, NY, & London: Cornell University Press, 1985). | |||
In his 1917 essay "Mourning and Melancholia", Freud distinguished mourning, painful but an inevitable part of life, and "melancholia", his term for pathological refusal of a mourner to "]" from the lost one. Freud claimed that, in normal mourning, the ego was responsible for narcissistically detaching the libido from the lost one as a means of self-preservation, but that in "melancholia", prior ambivalence towards the lost one prevents this from occurring. Suicide, Freud hypothesized, could result in extreme cases, when unconscious feelings of conflict became directed against the mourner's own ego.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Perelberg|first1=Rosine Jozef|title=Freud: A Modern Reader|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-71373-0|page=168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4v7fxQifjxAC&pg=PA168|language=en|date=15 September 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Howarth|first1=Glennys|last2=Leaman|first2=Oliver|title=Encyclopedia of Death and Dying|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-91378-5|page=304|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pMi2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT304|language=en|date=16 December 2003}}</ref> | |||
* ], ''Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud'' (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1974). (Mentioned above. For a good review, see Stirk, Peter M. R., ‘''Eros and Civilization'' revisited’, ''History of the Human Sciences'', 12 (1), 1999, pp. 73–90.) | |||
===Femininity and female sexuality=== | |||
* Mitchell, Juliet. ''Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis'' Originally published in 1974; Basic Books reissue (2000) ISBN 0-465-04608-8 | |||
Freud's account of femininity is grounded in his theory of psychic development as it traces the uneven transition from the earliest stages of infantile and childhood sexuality, characterised by ] and a ] disposition, through to the fantasy scenarios and rivalrous identifications of the ] and on to the greater or lesser extent these are modified in adult sexuality. There are different trajectories for the boy and the girl which arise as effects of the ]. Anatomical difference, the possession of a penis, induces castration anxiety for the boy whereas the girl experiences a sense of deprivation. In the boy's case the castration complex concludes the Oedipal phase whereas for the girl it precipitates it.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Russell |last1=Grigg |first2=Dominique |last2=Hecq |first3=Craig |last3=Smith |title =Feminine Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies| publisher =Rebus Press | date =1999 | location = London| pages = 7–17| isbn =1-900877-13-9}}</ref> | |||
The constraint of the erotic feelings and fantasies of the girl and her turning away from the mother to the father is an uneven and precarious process entailing "waves of repression". The normal outcome is, according to Freud, the ] becoming "the new leading zone" of sexual sensitivity, displacing the previously dominant ], the phallic properties of which made it indistinguishable in the child's early sexual life from the penis. This leaves a legacy of ] and emotional ambivalence for the girl which was "intimately related to the essence of femininity" and leads to "the greater proneness of women to ] and especially ]."<ref>Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. ''Freud's Women''. London: Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 403–414 citing ''Three Essay on Sexuality'' (1908), ''SE'' VII</ref> In his last paper on the topic Freud likewise concludes that "the development of femininity remains exposed to disturbance by the residual phenomena of the early masculine period... Some portion of what we men call the 'enigma of women' may perhaps be derived from this expression of bisexuality in women's lives."<ref name="Femininity 1933, SE XXII">Femininity (1933), ''SE'' XXII</ref> | |||
* ] & Grunberger, Béla. ''Freud or Reich?'' Psychoanalysis and Illusion.'' (London: Free Association Books, 1986) | |||
Initiating what became the first debate within psychoanalysis on femininity, ] of the ] set out to challenge Freud's account of femininity. Rejecting Freud's theories of the feminine castration complex and penis envy, Horney argued for a primary femininity and penis envy as a defensive formation rather than arising from the fact, or "injury", of biological asymmetry as Freud held. Horney had the influential support of ] and ] who coined the term "]" in his critique of Freud's position.<ref>Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. ''Freud's Women''. London: Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 430–37</ref> | |||
* Neu, Jerome (ed.), ''The Cambridge Companion to Freud'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). (A good conceptual overview.) | |||
In defending Freud against this critique, feminist scholar ] has argued that it presupposes a more normative account of female sexual development than that given by Freud. She finds that Freud moved from a description of the little girl stuck with her 'inferiority' or 'injury' in the face of the anatomy of the little boy to an account in his later work which explicitly describes the process of becoming 'feminine' as an 'injury' or 'catastrophe' for the complexity of her earlier psychic and sexual life.<ref>Rose, J. ''Sexuality in the Field of Vision'', London: Verso 1986 pp. 91–93</ref> | |||
* ], ''Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation'', trans. Denis Savage (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972). | |||
Throughout his deliberations on what he described as the "dark continent" of female sexuality and the "riddle" of femininity, Freud was careful to emphasise the "average validity" and provisional nature of his findings.<ref name="Femininity 1933, SE XXII"/> He did, however, in response to his critics, maintain a steadfast objection "to all of you ... to the extent that you do not distinguish more clearly between what is psychic and what is biological..."<ref>Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. ''Freud's Women''. London: Penguin Books, 1992, p.431 citing Freud's letter to Carl Müller-Braunschweig of 21 July 1935.</ref> | |||
*—, ''The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics'', ed. Don Ihde (London: Continuum, 2004). (A critical examination of the import of Freud for philosophy.) | |||
===Religion=== | |||
* Roazen, Paul. Freud and His Followers (New York: Random House, 1975). | |||
{{Main|Sigmund Freud's views on religion}} | |||
Freud regarded the ] God as an illusion based upon the infantile emotional need for a powerful, supernatural ]. He maintained that religion – once necessary to restrain man's violent nature in the early stages of civilization – in modern times, can be set aside in favor of ] and science.<ref>Jones, James W., in Charles Spezzano and Gerald J. Gargiulo (eds), (Hillsdale, 2003), p. xi. {{cite journal|last=Kepnes|first=Steven D.|title=Bridging the gap between understanding and explanation approaches to the study of religion|journal=Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|date=Dec 1986|volume=25|issue=4|pages=504–12|doi=10.2307/1385914 |jstor=1385914}}</ref> "Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices" (1907) notes the likeness between faith (religious belief) and ] obsession.<ref>Gay 1995, p. 435.</ref> '']'' (1913) proposes that society and religion begin with the ] and eating of the powerful paternal figure, who then becomes a revered collective memory.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Christopher N.|title=Freud, Religion and Anxiety|year=2007|location=Morrisville, NC |isbn=978-1-4357-0571-5|pages=30–31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0CBs5KeujoC&pg=PA30}} Freud, Sigmund ''Totem and Taboo'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1950) pp. x, 142, {{ISBN|978-0-393-00143-3}}</ref> In '']'' (1927) Freud argues that the function of religious belief is psychological consolation. He argues that the belief in a supernatural protector serves as a buffer against man's "fear of nature", just as the belief in an afterlife serves as a buffer against man's fear of death. The core idea of the work is that religious belief can be explained through its function in society, not through its relation to the truth. In '']'' (1930), he considers the "oceanic feeling" of wholeness, limitlessness, and eternity (brought to his attention by his friend ]), as a possible source for religious feelings. He notes that he has no experience of this feeling himself, and suggests that it is a regression into the state of consciousness that precedes the ego's differentiation of itself from the world of objects and others.<ref>Rubin, Jeffrey B., in Charles Spezzano and Gerald J. Gargiulo (eds), (Hillsdale, 2003), p. 79. Freud, Sigmund, ''Civilization and its Discontents'' (New York: Norton 1962), pp. 11–12 {{ISBN|978-0-393-09623-1}} {{cite book|last=Fuller|first=Andrew R.|title=Psychology and religion: classical theorists and contemporary developments|year=2008|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=978-0-7425-6022-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYUWamPaO-IC&pg=PA33|edition=4th|page=33}}</ref> '']'' (1937) proposes that ] was the tribal pater familias, killed by the Jews, who psychologically coped with the patricide with a ] conducive to their establishing monotheistic Judaism;<ref name="HR">{{cite journal |author-last=Stratton |author-first=Kimberly B. |date=August 2017 |title=Narrating Violence, Narrating Self: Exodus and Collective Identity in Early Rabbinic Literature |editor1-last=Copp |editor1-first=Paul |editor2-last=Wedemeyer |editor2-first=Christian K. |editor2-link=Christian K. Wedemeyer |journal=] |publisher=] for the ] |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=68–92 |doi=10.1086/692318 |doi-access= |issn=0018-2710 |jstor=26548153 |s2cid=148787965 |lccn=64001081 |oclc=299661763}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Costello|first=Stephen|title=Hermeneutics and the psychoanalysis of religion|year=2010|publisher=Peter Lang|location=Bern|isbn=978-3-0343-0124-4|pages=72–77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZabEx-Vyw-0C}}</ref> analogously, he described the Roman Catholic rite of ] as cultural evidence of the killing and devouring of the sacred father.<ref name=Chaney62/><ref>{{cite book|last=Assoun|first=Paul-Laurent |translator-last=Collier |translator-first=Richard L. |title=Freud and Nietzsche|year=2002|publisher=Continuum|location=London|isbn=978-0-8264-6316-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y39rOOHV44UC|page=166}} {{cite journal|last=Friedman|first=R.Z.|title=Freud's religion: Oedipus and Moses|journal=Religious Studies|date=May 1998|volume=34|issue=2|page=145|doi=10.1017/S0034412598004296|s2cid=170245489 }} {{cite book|first=Mikkel |last=Borch-Jacobsen |translator-first=Catherine |translator-last=Porter|title=The Freudian subject|year=1989|publisher=Macmillan|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-0-333-48986-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjqsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA271|page=271 n. 42}} Freud, Sigmund, ''Moses and Monotheism'' (New York: Vintage Books, 1967). Freud, Sigmund, ''An Autobiographical Study'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1952) pp. 130–31 {{ISBN|0-393-00146-6}}</ref> | |||
* ]. ''Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry'', Syracuse University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8156-0247-2. | |||
Moreover, he perceived religion, with its suppression of violence, as mediator of the societal and personal, the public and the private, conflicts between Eros and ], the forces of life and death.<ref>Juergensmeyer 2004, ; Juergensmeyer 2009, ; Marlan, Leeming and Madden 2008, ; Fuller 1994, ; Palmer 1997, </ref> Later works indicate Freud's pessimism about the future of civilization, which he noted in the 1931 edition of ''Civilization and its Discontents''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Marvin|title=Western Civilization A Brief History|year=2010|publisher=Wadsworth Pub Co|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-495-90115-0|page=405|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jR534a1fK-IC&pg=PA405}} {{cite book|last=Acquaviva|first=Gary J.|title=Values, Violence, and Our Future|year=2000|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-90-420-0559-4|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAtNAPteVk0C&pg=PA26|edition=2.}} {{cite book|last=Lehrer|first=Ronald|title=Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought: on the Origins of a Psychology of Dynamic Unconscious Mental Functioning|year=1995|publisher=State Univ. of New York Press|location=Albany|isbn=978-0-7914-2145-1|pages=180–81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQkznZX1_5oC&pg=PA180}} Freud, Sigmund, ''Civilization and its Discontents'' (New York: Norton 1962), pp. 92 and editor's footnote {{ISBN|978-0-393-09623-1}}) {{cite book|last=Hergenhahn|first=B.R.|title=An Introduction to the History of Psychology|year=2009|publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning|location=Australia|isbn=978-0-495-50621-8|pages=536–37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZwXnfYAo3oC&pg=PA536|edition=6th}} {{cite book|last=Anderson|first=James William|title=Sigmund Freud and his impact on the modern world|year=2001|publisher=Analytical Press|location=Hillsdale, NJ; London|isbn=978-0-88163-342-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTfJV3fWXWUC&pg=PA29|author2=Anderson, James William |editor=Jerome A. Winer|page=29|chapter=Sigmund Freud's life and work: an unofficial guide to the Freud exhibit}} But cf., {{cite book|last=Drassinower|first=Abraham|title=Freud's theory of culture: Eros, loss and politics|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=Lanham (Md.)|isbn=978-0-7425-2262-6|pages=11–15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evDNqzuM0uAC&pg=PA12}}</ref> Humphrey Skelton described Freud's ] as one of "] ]".<ref name="HH">{{cite web|url=https://heritage.humanists.uk/sigmund-freud/|title=Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)|work=Humanist Heritage|publisher=]|accessdate=29 March 2022}}</ref> The Humanist Heritage project summed his contributions to understanding of religion by saying: | |||
* Torrey, E. Fuller (1992). Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture. New York, NY : HarperCollins. | |||
* ]. ''Freudianism: A Marxist critique'', Academic Press (1976) ISBN 0-12-723250-8 | |||
{{blockquote|Freud's ideas on the origins of the religious impulse, and the comforting illusion religion provided, were a significant contribution to a tradition of ], in which research and reason were the means of uncovering truth. They also served to highlight the powerful resonance of childhood influences on adult lives, not least in the realm of religion.<ref name="HH"/>}} | |||
* Wollheim, Richard, ''Freud'', 2nd edn. (London: Fontana, 1991). (A good starting point.) | |||
In a footnote of his 1909 ''Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy'', Freud theorized that the universal fear of castration was provoked in the uncircumcised when they perceived circumcision and that this was "the deepest unconscious root of ]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWL4ja2BbnEC&q=Sigmund+Freud+circumcision+anti+semitism&pg=PA67|title=Anti-semitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred|author=Avner Falk|isbn=978-0-313-35384-0|year=2008|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref> | |||
===Biographies=== | |||
==Legacy== | |||
The area of biography has been especially contentious in the ] of psychoanalysis, for two primary reasons: first, following his death, significant portions of his personal papers were for several decades made available only at the permission of his biological and intellectual heirs (his daughter, Anna Freud, was extremely protective of her father's reputation); second, much of the data and theory of Freudian psychoanalysis hinges upon the personal testimony of Freud himself, and so to challenge Freud's legitimacy or honesty has been seen by many as an attack on the roots of his enduring work. | |||
], by ], is located near to where Sigmund and Anna Freud lived, now the ]. The building behind the statue is the ], a major psychological health care institution.]] | |||
Freud's legacy, though a highly contested area of controversy, has been assessed as "one of the strongest influences on twentieth-century thought, its impact comparable only to that of ] and ],"<ref>{{cite book|last=Frosh|first=Stephen|title=The Politics of Psychoanalysis|year=1987|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|isbn=0-333-39614-6|page=1}}</ref> with its range of influence permeating "all the fields of culture ... so far as to change our way of life and concept of man."<ref>{{cite book|last=Ellenberger|first=Henri F.|title=The Discovery of the Unconscious: the History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry|year=1970|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-465-01673-0|page=546}}</ref> | |||
===Psychotherapy=== | |||
The first biographies of Freud were written by Freud himself: his ''On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement'' (1914) and ''An Autobiographical Study'' (1924) provided much of the basis for discussions by later biographers, including "debunkers" (as they contain a number of prominent omissions and potential misrepresentations). A few of the major biographies on Freud to come out over the 20th century were: | |||
Though not the first methodology in the practice of individual verbal psychotherapy,<ref>H. Ellenberger, ''The Discovery of the Unconscious'', 1970, pp. 301, 486, 536, 331–409.</ref> Freud's psychoanalytic system came to dominate the field from early in the twentieth century, forming the basis for many later variants. While these systems have adopted different theories and techniques, all have followed Freud by attempting to achieve psychic and behavioral change through having patients talk about their difficulties.<ref name=Systems>Ford & Urban 1965, p. 109</ref> Psychoanalysis is not as influential as it once was in Europe and the United States, though in some parts of the world, notably Latin America, its influence in the later 20th century expanded substantially. Psychoanalysis also remains influential within many contemporary schools of psychotherapy and has led to innovative therapeutic work in schools and with families and groups.<ref>Pick, Daniel (2015). ''Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. pp. 19, 121.</ref> There is a substantial body of research which demonstrates the efficacy of the clinical methods of psychoanalysis<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1192/bji.2017.4| pmid=29953128| pmc=6020924|title = The scientific standing of psychoanalysis| journal=BJPsych International| volume=15| issue=1| pages=5–8|year = 2018|last1 = Solms|first1 = Mark|issn=2056-4740}}</ref> and of related ] therapies in treating a wide range of psychological disorders.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075051/http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Evidence%20in%20support%20of%20psychodynamic%20psychotherapy%20-updated%20Nov%202013.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }} Jessica Yakeley and Peter Hobson (2013)</ref> | |||
*Helen Walker Puner, ''Freud: His Life and His Mind'' (1947) — Puner's "facts" were often shaky at best but she was remarkably insightful with regard to Freud's unanalyzed relationship to his mother, Amalia. | |||
The ]s, a group including ], ], ], ] and ], rejected Freud's theory of instinctual drive, emphasized interpersonal relations and self-assertiveness, and made modifications to therapeutic practice that reflected these theoretical shifts. The neo-Freudian analysis places more emphasis on the patient's relationship with the analyst and less on the exploration of the unconscious.<ref name=Kovel/> | |||
* ], ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'', 3 vols. (1953–1958) — the first "authorized" biography of Freud, made by one of his former students with the authorization and assistance of Anna Freud, with the hope of "dispelling the myths" from earlier biographies. Though this is the most comprehensive biography of Freud, Jones has been accused of writing more of a hagiography than a history of Freud. Among his questionable assertions, Jones diagnosed his own analyst, Ferenczi, as "psychotic." In the same breath, Jones also maligned Otto Rank, Ferenczi's close friend and Jones's most important rival for leadership of the movement in the 1920s. | |||
] approached psychoanalysis through ] and literature. Lacan believed that most of Freud's essential work had been done before 1905, and that ] and ] were based upon misreadings of Freud's work. Lacan saw desire as more important than need.<ref>Mitchell, Stephen A. & Black, Margaret J. ''Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought''. New York: Basic Books, 1995, pp. 193–203</ref> | |||
* ], ''The Discovery of the Unconscious'' (1970) — was the first book to, in a compelling way, attempt to situate Freud within the context of his time and intellectual thought, arguing that he was the intellectual heir of ] and that the genesis of his theory owed a large amount to the political context of turn of the 19th century Vienna. (Swiss link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/Henri_F._Ellenberger) | |||
] developed some of Freud's ideas, such as Actualneurosis. Freud applied that idea both to infants and to adults. In the former case, seductions were sought as the causes of later neuroses and in the latter incomplete sexual release. Unlike Freud, Reich retained the idea that actual experience, especially sexual experience, was of key significance. By the 1920s, Reich had "taken Freud's original ideas about sexual release to the point of specifying the orgasm as the criteria of healthy function." Reich was also "developing his ideas about character into a form that would later take shape, first as "muscular armour", and eventually as a transducer of universal biological energy, the "orgone"."<ref>Kovel 1991, pp.176-178</ref> | |||
* Frank Sulloway, ''Freud: Biologist of the Mind'' (1979) — Sulloway, one of the first professional/academic historians to write a biography of Freud, positioned Freud within the larger context of the ], arguing specifically that Freud was, in fact, a biologist in disguise (a "crypto-biologist", in Sulloway's terms), and sought to actively hide this. | |||
], who helped to develop ], was influenced by Reich, Jung, and Freud. The key idea of gestalt therapy is that Freud overlooked the structure of awareness, "an active process that moves toward the construction of organized meaningful wholes{{nbsp}}... between an organism and its environment." These wholes, called ''gestalts'', are "patterns involving all the layers of organismic function – thought, feeling, and activity", to which improper formation, in Perls' view, gives rise to neurosis and anxieties. Gestalt therapy attempts to cure patients by placing them in contact with "immediate organismic needs." Perls rejected the verbal approach of classical psychoanalysis; favoring a workshop style approach.<ref name=Kovel/> | |||
* ], ''Freud: A Life for Our Time'' (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988) — Gay's impressively scholarly work was published in part as a response to the anti-Freudian literature and the "Freud Wars" of the 1980s (see below). Gay's book is probably the best pro-Freud biography available, though he is not completely uncritical of his hero. His "Bibliographical Essay" at the end of the volume provides astute evaluations of the voluminous literature on Freud up to the mid-1980s. | |||
]'s ], which has been influential post-Freudian psychotherapy, resembles psychoanalytic therapy in its emphasis on early childhood experience but has also differences with it. While Janov's theory is akin to Freud's early idea of Actualneurosis, he does not have a dynamic psychology but a nature psychology like that of Reich or Perls, in which need is primary while wish is derivative and dispensable when need is met. Despite its surface similarity to Freud's ideas, Janov's theory lacks a strictly psychological account of the unconscious and belief in infantile sexuality. While for Freud there was a hierarchy of dangerous situations, for Janov the key event in the child's life is an awareness that the parents do not love it.<ref name="Kovel">{{cite book |author=Kovel, Joel |url=https://archive.org/details/completeguidetot0000kove_x8w2 |title=A Complete Guide to Therapy |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-14-013631-9 |location=London |pages=96, 123–35, 165–98}}</ref> Janov writes in '']'' (1970) that primal therapy has in some ways returned to Freud's early ideas and techniques.<ref>Janov, Arthur. ''The Primal Scream. Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neurosis''. London: Sphere Books, 1977, p. 206</ref> | |||
* Breger, Louis. "Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision." (New York: Wiley, 2000). Though written from a psychoanalytic point of view (the author is a former President of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis), this is a "warts and all" life of Sigmund Freud. It corrects, in the light of historical research of recent decades, many (though not quite all) of several disputed traditional historical accounts of events uncritically recycled by Peter Gay. | |||
] and Laura Davis, co-authors of '']'' (1988), are described as "champions of survivorship" by ], who considers Freud the key influence upon them, although in his view they are indebted not to classic psychoanalysis but to "the pre-psychoanalytic Freud{{nbsp}}... who supposedly took pity on his hysterical patients, found that they were all harboring memories of early abuse{{nbsp}}... and cured them by unknotting their repression." Crews sees Freud as having anticipated the ] movement by emphasizing "mechanical cause-and-effect relations between symptomatology and the premature stimulation of one body zone or another", and with pioneering its "technique of thematically matching a patient's symptom with a sexually symmetrical 'memory.{{'"}} Crews believes that Freud's confidence in accurate recall of early memories anticipates the theories of recovered memory therapists such as ], which in his view have led to people being wrongfully imprisoned.<ref>Crews, Frederick, et al. ''The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute''. New York: The New York Review of Books, 1995, pp. 206–12</ref> | |||
The creation of Freud biographies has itself even been written about at some length—see, for example, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, "A History of Freud Biographies," in ''Discovering the History of Psychiatry'', edited by Mark S. Micale and ] (Oxford University Press, 1994). | |||
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Research projects designed to test Freud's theories empirically have led to a vast literature on the topic.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stevens |first=Richard |title=Freud and Psychoanalysis |location=Milton Keynes |publisher=Open University Press |year=1985 |page=96 |isbn=978-0-335-10180-1 |quote=the number of relevant studies runs into thousands"}}</ref> American psychologists began to attempt to study repression in the experimental laboratory around 1930. In 1934, when the psychologist ] sent Freud reprints of his attempts to study repression, Freud responded with a dismissive letter stating that "the wealth of reliable observations" on which psychoanalytic assertions were based made them "independent of experimental verification."<ref>{{cite book |author1=MacKinnon, Donald W. |author2=Dukes, William F. |editor=Postman, Leo |title=Psychology in the Making: Histories of Selected Research Problems |url=https://archive.org/details/psychologyinmaki00postrich |url-access=registration |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |year=1962 |pages=, 703 |isbn=978-0-19-866224-2 }}</ref> Seymour Fisher and Roger P. Greenberg concluded in 1977 that some of Freud's concepts were supported by ]. Their analysis of research literature supported Freud's concepts of oral and anal personality constellations, his account of the role of Oedipal factors in certain aspects of male personality functioning, his formulations about the relatively greater concern about the loss of love in women's as compared to men's personality economy, and his views about the instigating effects of homosexual anxieties on the formation of paranoid delusions. They also found limited and equivocal support for ]. They found that several of Freud's other theories, including his portrayal of dreams as primarily containers of secret, unconscious wishes, as well as some of his views about the ] of women, were either not supported or contradicted by research. Reviewing the issues again in 1996, they concluded that much experimental data relevant to Freud's work exists, and supports some of his major ideas and theories.<ref name=FisherG>Fisher, Seymour & Greenberg, Roger P. Freud Scientifically Reappraised: Testing the Theories and Therapy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1996, pp. 13–15, 284–85</ref> | |||
Other viewpoints include those of psychologist and science historian Malcolm Macmillan, who concludes in ''Freud Evaluated'' (1991) that "Freud's method is not capable of yielding objective data about mental processes".<ref>Malcolm Macmillan, ''Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc'', MIT Press, 1997, p. xxiii.</ref> Morris Eagle states that it has been "demonstrated quite conclusively that because of the epistemologically contaminated status of clinical data derived from the clinical situation, such data have questionable probative value in the testing of psychoanalytic hypotheses".<ref>p. 32, Morris N. Eagle, "The Epistemological Status of Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theory", in 'R.S. Cohen and L. Lauden (eds.), ''Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis'', Reidel 1983, pp. 31–55.</ref> ], in '']'' (1995), described psychoanalysis as "perhaps the most complex and successful" ] in history.<ref name=Webster>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Webster |year=2005 |title=Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis |publisher=The Orwell Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-9515922-5-0 |pages=12, 437}}</ref> Crews believes that psychoanalysis has no scientific or therapeutic merit.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Frederick Crews |title=The Verdict on Freud |journal=Psychological Science |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=63–68 |date=1 March 1996|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00331.x |s2cid=143453699 }}</ref> ] research associate Kurt Jacobsen takes these critics to task for their own supposedly dogmatic and historically naive views both about psychoanalysis and the nature of science.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jacobsen|first=Kurt|title=Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science and Resistance|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7425-2263-3|location=Lanham, Maryland}}</ref> | |||
* Bakan, David. ''Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition'', D. Van Nostrand Company, 1958; New York, Schocken Books, 1965; Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN 0-486-43767-1 | |||
] regards Freud's ''Interpretation of Dreams'' as a revolutionary work of science, the last such work to be published in book form.<ref>Cohen, I. Bernard. ''Revolution in Science''. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985, p. 356.</ref> In contrast ] believes that Freud, by rhetorically discrediting 19th century investigators of dreams such as ] and the ] at a time when study of the physiology of the brain was only beginning, interrupted the development of scientific dream theory for half a century.<ref>{{cite book |first=Allan |last=Hobson |year=1988 |title=The Dreaming Brain| publisher=] |location=New York |isbn = 978-0-14-012498-9 |page=42}}</ref> The dream researcher G. William Domhoff has disputed claims of Freudian dream theory being validated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/domhoff_2000d.html |title=Domhoff: Beyond Freud and Jung |publisher=Psych.ucsc.edu |date=23 September 2000 |access-date=21 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825091204/http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/domhoff_2000d.html |archive-date=25 August 2011}}</ref> | |||
* Crews, F. C. ''Unauthorized Freud : doubters confront a legend'', New York, Viking 1998. ISBN 0-670-87221-0 | |||
] argued that Freud's psychoanalytic theories were unfalsifiable.]] | |||
] claimed that ] were presented in ] form, meaning that no experiment could ever disprove them.<ref name=Popper>Popper, Karl. ''Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.'' London: Routledge and Keagan Paul, 1963, pp. 33–39</ref> The philosopher ] argues in '']'' (1984) that Popper was mistaken and that many of Freud's theories are empirically testable, a position with which others such as Eysenck agree.<ref>], ] Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1986, p. 14.</ref><ref>Grünbaum, A. ''The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique.'' University of California Press, 1984, pp. 97–126.</ref> The philosopher ], writing in ''Sexual Desire'' (1986), also rejected Popper's arguments, pointing to the theory of repression as an example of a Freudian theory that does have testable consequences. Scruton nevertheless concluded that psychoanalysis is not genuinely scientific, because it involves an unacceptable dependence on metaphor.<ref>{{cite book |title = Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation |publisher = Phoenix Books |author = Roger Scruton |year = 1994 |page = 201 |isbn = 978-1-85799-100-0}}</ref> The philosopher Donald Levy agrees with Grünbaum that Freud's theories are falsifiable but disputes Grünbaum's contention that therapeutic success is only the empirical basis on which they stand or fall, arguing that a much wider range of empirical evidence can be adduced via clinical case material.<ref>Levy, Donald, ''Freud Among the Philosophers'' (1996), pp. 129–32.</ref> | |||
In a study of psychoanalysis in the United States, Nathan Hale reported on the "decline of psychoanalysis in psychiatry" during 1965–1985.<ref>Nathan G. Hale, ''The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1917–1985'', Oxford University Press, 1995 (pp. 300–21).</ref> The continuation of this trend was noted by Alan Stone: "As academic psychology becomes more 'scientific' and psychiatry more biological, psychoanalysis is being brushed aside."<ref>Alan A. Stone, "Where Will Psychoanalysis Survive?", Keynote address to the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 9 December 1995. {{cite web |url=http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/01/original.html |title=Original Address|author= Alan A. Stone, M.D |access-date=22 November 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327083025/http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/01/original.html |archive-date=27 March 2013}}</ref> Paul Stepansky, while noting that psychoanalysis remains influential in the humanities, records the "vanishingly small number of psychiatric residents who choose to pursue psychoanalytic training" and the "nonanalytic backgrounds of psychiatric chairpersons at major universities" among the evidence he cites for his conclusion that "Such historical trends attest to the marginalisation of psychoanalysis within American psychiatry."<ref>Paul E. Stepansky, ''Psychoanalysis at the Margins'', 2009, New York: Other Press, pp. 11, 14.</ref> Nonetheless, Freud was ranked as the third most cited psychologist of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century |journal=Review of General Psychology |volume=6 |issue=2 |year=2002 |pages=139–152 |doi=10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139 |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/eminent.aspx |last1=Haggbloom |first1=Steven J. |last2=Warnick |first2=Renee |last3=Warnick |first3=Jason E. |last4=Jones |first4=Vinessa K. |last5=Yarbrough |first5=Gary L. |last6=Russell |first6=Tenea M. |last7=Borecky |first7=Chris M. |last8=McGahhey |first8=Reagan |last9=Powell III |first9=John L. |last10=Beavers |first10=Jamie |last11=Monte |first11=Emmanuelle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129035801/http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/eminent.aspx |archive-date=29 January 2017|citeseerx=10.1.1.586.1913 |s2cid=145668721 }}</ref> It is also claimed that in moving beyond the "orthodoxy of the not so distant past{{nbsp}}... new ideas and new research has led to an intense reawakening of interest in psychoanalysis from neighbouring disciplines ranging from the humanities to ] and including the non-analytic therapies".<ref>Cooper, Arnold M. (ed.), Editor's Preface to ''Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America'' American Psychiatric Pub. 2008, pp. xiii–xiv</ref> | |||
* Dolnick, Edward. ''Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis'' ISBN 0-684-82497-3 | |||
Research in the emerging field of ], founded by neuroscientist and psychoanalyst ],<ref>Kaplan-Solms, K. & Solms, Mark. ''Clinical studies in neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a depth neuropsychology.'' London: Karnac Books, 2000; Solms, Mark & Turbull, O. ''The brain and the inner world: An introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience.'' New York: Other Press, 2002.</ref> has proved controversial with some psychoanalysts criticising the very concept itself.<ref>Blass, Rachel B. and Carmeli, Zvi, "The case against neuropsychoanalysis. On fallacies underlying psychoanalysis' latest scientific trend and its negative impact on psychoanalytic discourse", '']'', Vol. 88, Issue 1, pp. 19–40, February 2007.</ref> Solms and his colleagues have argued for neuro-scientific findings being "broadly consistent" with Freudian theories pointing out brain structures relating to Freudian concepts such as libido, drives, the unconscious, and repression.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lambert | first1 = Anthony J. | last2 = Good | first2 = Kimberly S. | last3 = Kirk | first3 = Ian J. | year = 2009 | title = Testing the repression hypothesis: Effects of emotional valence on memory suppression in the think – No think task | journal = Conscious Cognition | volume = 19 | issue = 1| pages = 281–93 | doi = 10.1016/j.concog.2009.09.004 | pmid = 19804991 | s2cid = 32958143 }}</ref><!-- so was this ever printed? that's nearly six years ago ---><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Depue | first1 = Brenden E | last2 = Curran | first2 = Tim | last3 = Banich | first3 = Maria T | year = 2007 | title = Prefrontal regions orchestrate suppression of emotional memories via a two-phase process | url = https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17626877/ | journal = ] | volume = 317 | issue = 5835 | pages = 215–19 | doi = 10.1126/science.1139560 | pmid = 17626877 | bibcode = 2007Sci...317..215D | url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213218/http://psych.colorado.edu/~tcurran/depue_curran_banich_2007.pdf | archive-date = 22 September 2017| citeseerx = 10.1.1.561.1627 | s2cid = 1616027 }}</ref> Neuroscientists who have endorsed Freud's work include ] who believes that Freud "transformed psychiatry" by providing "the first exploration of the way in which hidden states of the brain participate in driving thought and behavior"<ref>Eagleman, David ''Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain'' Edinburgh: Canongate, 2011, p. 17</ref> and Nobel laureate ] who argues that "psychoanalysis still represents the most coherent and intellectually satisfying view of the mind."<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kandel | first1 = ER | year = 1999 |url= http://www.columbia.edu/itc/biology/pollack/w4065/client_edit/readings/kandel_1999.pdf | title = Biology and the future of psychoanalysis: a new intellectual framework for psychiatry revisited | doi = 10.1176/ajp.156.4.505 | pmid = 10200728 | journal = American Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 156 | issue = 4| pages = 505–24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060922234529/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/biology/pollack/w4065/client_edit/readings/kandel_1999.pdf | archive-date = 22 September 2006 }}</ref> | |||
* Dufresne, T. ''Killing Freud'', Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. | |||
===Philosophy=== | |||
* Esterson, Allen, "Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud." Chicago: Open Court, 1993. | |||
{{see also|Freudo-Marxism}} | |||
] saw similarities between psychoanalysis and ].]] | |||
Psychoanalysis has been interpreted as both radical and conservative. By the 1940s, it had come to be seen as conservative by the European and American intellectual community. Critics outside the psychoanalytic movement, whether on the political left or right, saw Freud as a conservative. Fromm had argued that several aspects of psychoanalytic theory served the interests of political reaction in his '']'' (1942), an assessment confirmed by sympathetic writers on the right. In '']'' (1959), ] portrayed Freud as a man who urged men to make the best of an inevitably unhappy fate, and admirable for that reason. In the 1950s, ] challenged the then prevailing interpretation of Freud as a conservative in '']'' (1955), as did ] in ''Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture'' and ] in '']'' (1959).<ref>{{cite book |author=Robinson, Paul |title=The Freudian Left |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca and London |year=1990 |pages= |isbn=978-0-8014-9716-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/freudianleftwilh0000robi/page/147 }}</ref> ''Eros and Civilization'' helped make the idea that Freud and ] were addressing similar questions from different perspectives credible to the left. Marcuse criticized neo-Freudian revisionism for discarding seemingly pessimistic theories such as the death instinct, arguing that they could be turned in a utopian direction. Freud's theories also influenced the ] and ] as a whole.<ref>Jay, Martin. ''The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 86–112.</ref> | |||
* Eysenck, H. J. ''The Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire'', Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington D. C., (1990) | |||
Freud has been compared to Marx by Reich, who saw Freud's importance for psychiatry as parallel to that of Marx for economics,<ref>{{cite book |author=Reich, Wilhelm |title=People in Trouble |url=https://archive.org/details/peopleintroublev02reic |url-access=registration |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York |year=1976 |page= |isbn=978-0-374-51035-0 }}</ref> and by Paul Robinson, who sees Freud as a revolutionary whose contributions to twentieth-century thought are comparable in importance to Marx's contributions to the nineteenth-century thought.<ref>Robinson, Paul. ''The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse''. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990, p. 7</ref> Fromm calls Freud, Marx, and Einstein the "architects of the modern age", but rejects the idea that Marx and Freud were equally significant, arguing that Marx was both far more historically important and a finer thinker. Fromm nevertheless credits Freud with permanently changing the way human nature is understood.<ref>Fromm, Erich. ''Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx & Freud''. London: Sphere Books, 1980, p. 11</ref> ] and ] write in '']'' (1972) that psychoanalysis resembles the ] in that it became corrupted almost from the beginning. They believe this began with Freud's development of the theory of the Oedipus complex, which they see as idealist.<ref>Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. ''Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992, p. 55.</ref> | |||
* Jurjevich, R. M. ''The Hoax of Freudism: A study of Brainwashing the American Professionals and Laymen'' Dorrance (1974) ISBN 0-8059-1856-6 | |||
] critiques Freud's theory of the unconscious in '']'' (1943), claiming that consciousness is essentially self-conscious.<ref name=Baldwin>{{cite book |author=Thomas Baldwin |editor=Ted Honderich |title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=1995 |page= |isbn=978-0-19-866132-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00hond/page/792 }}</ref> ] considers Freud to be one of the anticipators of ],<ref>Priest, Stephen. ''Merleau-Ponty''. New York: Routledge, 2003, p. 28</ref> while ] considers ], the founder of phenomenology, to be Freud's philosophical opposite, writing that Husserl's polemic against psychologism could have been directed against psychoanalysis.<ref>Adorno, Theodor W. ''Against Epistemology: A Metacritique. Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985, p. 96</ref> ] sees Freud as one of the three "]", alongside Marx and Nietzsche,<ref name=Ricoeur>{{cite book |last=Ricoeur |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Ricœur |others=Denis Savage (transl.) |title=Freud and Philosophy. An Essay on Interpretation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHXFRv7SUrcC |location=] |publisher=] |orig-year=1970 |date=2008 |page= |isbn=978-81-208-3305-0}}</ref> for their unmasking 'the lies and ]s of ]'.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/431 |first=Rita |last=Felski |author-link=Rita Felski |title=Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion |journal=M/C Journal |volume=15 |number=1 |year=2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323062432/http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/431 |archive-date=23 March 2016|doi=10.5204/mcj.431|doi-access=free}}</ref> Ricœur and ] have helped create a "] version of Freud", one which "claimed him as the most significant progenitor of the shift from an objectifying, empiricist understanding of the human realm to one stressing subjectivity and interpretation."<ref name=Robinson>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Paul |title=Freud and His Critics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOW1UW5exz4C |year=1993 |publisher=] |location=] |page= |isbn=978-0-520-08029-4}}</ref> ] drew on Freud's concept of ] for his reinterpretation of Marx's '']''.<ref name=Cleaver>{{cite book |author=Cleaver, Harry |title=Reading Capital Politically |url=https://archive.org/details/readingcapitalpo00harr |url-access=registration |publisher=Ak Press |location=Leeds |year=2000 |page= |isbn=978-1-902593-29-6}}</ref> ] developed a theory of the unconscious that reverses Freud's account of the dream-work.<ref>Dufresne, Todd. ''Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000, p. 130.</ref> | |||
* LaPiere, R. T. ''The Freudian Ethic: An Analysis of the Subversion of Western Character'' Greenwood Press (1974) ISBN 0-8371-7543-7 | |||
Several scholars see Freud as parallel to ], writing that they hold nearly the same theory of dreams and have similar theories of the tripartite structure of the human soul or personality, even if the hierarchy between the parts of the soul is almost reversed.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Kahn |first= Charles H. |author-link= Charles H. Kahn |title= Plato's Theory of Desire |journal=] |volume= 41 |issue= 1 |year= 1987 |pages= 77–103 | |||
* ]. ''Freud'' Routledge (2005) ISBN 0-415-31451-8 | |||
|quote= ...{{nbsp}}Plato is perhaps the only major philosopher to anticipate some of the central discoveries of twentieth-century depth psychology, which is, of Freud and his school;{{nbsp}}... |issn= 0034-6632 |jstor= 20128559 |url= https://philpapers.org/archive/KAHPTO.pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190520124559/https://philpapers.org/archive/KAHPTO.pdf |archive-date = 20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>" for Freud the basic nature of our mind is the appetite-id part, which is the main source for agency, for Plato, it is the other way around: we are divine, and reason is the essential nature and the origin of our agencies which together with the emotions temper the extreme and disparate tendencies of our behavior." Calian, Florian. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525035710/http://www.scribd.com/doc/115919845/Plato-s-Psychology-and-Freud |date=25 May 2013 }}. Affectivity, Agency (2012), p. 21.</ref> ] argues that Freud's theories are an inversion of Plato's. Whereas Plato saw a hierarchy inherent in the nature of reality and relied upon it to validate norms, Freud was a naturalist who could not follow such an approach. Both men's theories drew a parallel between the structure of the human mind and that of society, but while Plato wanted to strengthen the super-ego, which Gellner compared to the aristocracy, Freud wanted to strengthen the ego, which corresponded to the middle class.<ref name="Gellner140">Gellner, Ernest. ''The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason''. London: Fontana Press, 1993, pp. 140–43.</ref> ] compares Freudian psychoanalysis to ], noting St. Thomas's belief in the existence of an "unconscious consciousness" and his "frequent use of the word and concept 'libido' – sometimes in a more specific sense than Freud, but always in a manner in agreement with the Freudian use." Vitz suggests that Freud may have been unaware his theory of the unconscious was reminiscent of ].<ref name=Vitzpages5354/> | |||
===Literature and literary criticism=== | |||
* ]. ''The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements'' Authorhouse (2002) ISBN 0-7596-7222-9 | |||
The poem "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" was published by ] in his 1940 collection '']''. Auden describes Freud as having created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poem/memory-sigmund-freud|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414133136/https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/memory-sigmund-freud|title=In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden – Poems | Academy of American Poets|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|archive-date=14 April 2016|website=poets.org}}</ref><ref>Alexander, Sam, (undated); and Thurschwell, P. ''Sigmund Freud'' London: Routledge, 2009, p. 1.</ref> | |||
Literary critic ] has been influenced by Freud.<ref>Bolla, Peter de. ''Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics''. London: Routledge, 1988, p. 19</ref> ] has also been influenced by Freud, whom she calls "Nietzsche's heir" and one of the greatest sexual psychologists in literature, but has rejected the scientific status of his work in her '']'' (1990), writing, "Freud has no rivals among his successors because they think he wrote science, when in fact he wrote art."<ref>Paglia, Camille. ''Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson''. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 2, 228.</ref> | |||
* Macmillan, Malcolm. ''Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc'' MIT Press, 1996 ISBN 0-262-63171-7 | |||
===Feminism=== | |||
* Scharnberg, Max. ''The non-authentic nature of Freud's observations'', Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993 ISBN 91-554-3122-4 | |||
] criticizes Freud's view of women in her 1963 book '']''.<ref name=Friedan/>]] | |||
The decline in Freud's reputation has been attributed partly to the revival of ].<ref>P. Robinson, ''Freud and His Critics'', 1993, pp. 1–2.</ref> ] criticizes psychoanalysis from an ] standpoint in '']'' (1949), arguing that Freud saw an "original superiority" in the male that is in reality socially induced.<ref name=Mitchell/> ] criticizes Freud and what she considered his Victorian view of women in '']'' (1963).<ref name=Friedan>Friedan, Betty. ''The Feminine Mystique''. W.W. Norton, 1963, pp. 166–94</ref> Freud's concept of ] was attacked by ], who in '']'' (1970) accused him of confusion and oversights.<ref>Millett, Kate. ''Sexual Politics''. University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 176–203</ref> In 1968, ] wrote in her essay '']:'' <blockquote>It was Freud's feelings about women's secondary and inferior relationship to men that formed the basis for his theories on female sexuality. Once having laid down the law about the nature of our sexuality, Freud not so strangely discovered a tremendous problem of ] in women. His recommended cure for a frigid woman was psychiatric care. She was suffering from failure to mentally adjust to her 'natural' role as a woman.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Koedt|first=Anne|date=1970|title=The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm by Anne Koedt|url=http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/vaginalmyth.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106211856/http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/vaginalmyth.html|archive-date=6 January 2013|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref></blockquote> ] writes that Freud and his followers erroneously thought his "years of intensive clinical experience" added up to scientific rigor.<ref>{{cite book|author=Weisstein, Naomi|editor=Schneir, Miriam|title=Feminism in Our Time|publisher=Vintage|year=1994|chapter=Kinder, Küche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female|isbn=978-0-679-74508-2|page=|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/feminisminourtim0000unse/page/217}}</ref> | |||
Freud is also criticized by ] and ]. In '']'' (1970), Firestone argues that Freud was a "poet" who produced metaphors rather than literal truths; in her view, Freud, like feminists, recognized that sexuality was the crucial problem of modern life, but ignored the social context. Firestone interprets Freud's "metaphors" in terms of the facts of power within the family. Figes tries in ''Patriarchal Attitudes'' (1970) to place Freud within a "]". ] defends Freud against his feminist critics in ''Psychoanalysis and Feminism'' (1974), accusing them of misreading him and misunderstanding the implications of psychoanalytic theory for feminism. Mitchell helped introduce English-speaking feminists to Lacan.<ref name=Mitchell>Mitchell, Juliet. ''Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis''. London: Penguin Books, 2000, pp. xxix, 303–56</ref> Mitchell is criticized by ] in ''The Daughter's Seduction'' (1982). Gallop compliments Mitchell for her criticism of feminist discussions of Freud but finds her treatment of Lacanian theory lacking.<ref>Gallop, Jane. ''The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis''. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992</ref> | |||
* Stannard, D. E. ''Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory'' Oxford University Press, Oxford (1980) ISBN 0-19-503044-3 | |||
Some French feminists, among them ] and ], have been influenced by Freud as interpreted by Lacan.<ref>Gallop, Jane & Burke, Carolyn, in Eisenstein, Hester & Jardine, Alice (eds.). ''The Future of Difference''. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987, pp. 106–08</ref><ref>Whitford, Margaret. ''Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine''. London and New York: Routledge, 1991, pp. 31–32</ref> | |||
* Thornton, E. M. ''Freud and Cocaine: The Freudian Fallacy'', Blond & Briggs, London (1983) ISBN 0-85634-139-8 | |||
Psychologist ] writes that "The penchant of developmental theorists to project a masculine image, and one that appears frightening to women, goes back at least to Freud." She sees Freud's criticism of women's sense of justice reappearing in the work of ] and ]. Gilligan notes that ], in contrast to Freud, attributes sexual difference not to anatomy but to the fact that male and female children have different early social environments. Chodorow, writing against the masculine bias of psychoanalysis, "replaces Freud's negative and derivative description of female psychology with a positive and direct account of her own."<ref>Gilligan, Carol. ''In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1982, pp. 6–8, 18</ref> | |||
* Webster, Richard. ''Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis'' BasicBooks, 1995. ISBN 0-465-09579-8 | |||
In her analysis of Freud's work on religion in relation to gender, ] noted that Freud paired femininity and the concept of weakness with Christianity and wish fulfillment while associating masculinity and renunciation with Judaism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Soble |first=Alan |date=1987 |title=Review of Freud on Femininity and Faith |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40036410 |journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion |volume=22 |issue=1/2 |pages=99–102 |jstor=40036410 |issn=0020-7047}}</ref> | |||
] has developed a feminist perspective on psychoanalysis proposing that it is a discourse that "attempts to understand the psychic consequences of three universal traumas: the fact that there are others, the fact of sexual difference, and the fact of death".<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Moi | first1 = Toril | author-link = Toril Moi | year = 2004 | title = From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan, and Feminism, again | url = http://www.torilmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MOI_FEMININITY.PDF | journal = Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | page = 871 | doi = 10.1086/380630 | s2cid = 146342669 | url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160623200809/http://www.torilmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MOI_FEMININITY.PDF | archive-date = 23 June 2016}}</ref> She replaces Freud's term of castration with ] concept of "victimization" which is a more universal term that applies equally to both sexes.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality and Tragedy|url = https://archive.org/details/claimreasonwittg00cave|url-access = limited|last = Cavell|first = Stanley| author-link=Stanley Cavell |publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 1999|location = New York|pages = and 431|isbn = 978-0-19-513107-9}}</ref> Moi regards this concept of human finitude as a suitable replacement for both castration and sexual difference as the traumatic "discovery of our separate, sexed, mortal existence" and how both men and women come to terms with it.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy|url = https://archive.org/details/claimreasonwittg00cave|url-access = limited|last = Cavell|first = Stanley|author-link=Stanley Cavell |publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 1999|location = New York|page = |isbn = 978-0-19-513107-9}}</ref> | |||
==In popular culture== | |||
Sigmund Freud is the subject of three major films or TV series, the first of which was 1962's'' ]'' starring ] as Freud, directed by ] from a revision of a script by an uncredited ]. The film is focused on Freud's early life from 1885 to 1890 and combines multiple case studies of Freud into single ones, and multiple friends of his into single characters.<ref>Holland, Norman N. (1994). (adapted essay from an earlier version published in ''How to See Huston's Freud: Perspectives on John Huston'', Ed. Stephen Cooper. Perspectives on Film Series. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. 164–83.)</ref> | |||
In 1984, the ] produced the six-episode mini-series ] starring ].<ref>{{IMDb title|0135093|Freud}}</ref> | |||
The stage play ''The Talking Cure'' and subsequent film '']'' focus on the conflict between Freud and ]. Both are written by ] and are partly based on the nonfiction book ''A Most Dangerous Method'' by ]. ] plays Freud and ] plays Jung.<ref>Dee Jefferson: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903100717/http://www.thebrag.com/2012/08/14/film-interview-jeremy-thomas/ |date=3 September 2012 }}, interview with Jeremy Thomas on thebrag.com, 14 August 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2012.</ref> | |||
More fanciful employments of Freud in fiction are '']'' by ], which centers on an encounter between Freud and the fictional detective ], with a main part of the plot seeing Freud helping Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bunson|first=Matthew|author-link=Matthew Bunson |title=Encyclopedia Sherlockiana |year=1997 |publisher=] |page=227 |isbn=0-02-861679-0}}</ref> The 2020 Austrian-German series ] involves a young Freud solving murder mysteries.<ref name=Db>{{cite news|newspaper=]|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflixs-freud-depicts-sigmund-freud-as-a-horny-coked-out-demon-hunter|title=Netflix's 'Freud' Depicts Sigmund Freud as a Horny, Coked-Out Demon Hunter|last=Schager|first=Nick|date=23 March 2020}}</ref> The series has been criticized for having Freud be helped by a ] with real paranormal powers, when in reality Freud was quite skeptical of the paranormal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/freud/s01|title=Freud: Season 1|website=]|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=] |first=Adrian |last=Horton |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/23/freud-netflix-review-historical-fiction-thriller |title=Freud review – Netflix revisionist drama is a ridiculous coked-up mess|date=23 March 2020}}</ref> Freud also helps to solve a murder case in the 2006 novel '']'' by ].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=] |first=Maslin |last=Janet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/books/31masl.html |title=A New York Murder Mystery With Freud at the Center |date=31 August 2006 |access-date=27 May 2022}}</ref> | |||
]'s 2009 play ''Freud's Last Session'' imagines a meeting between ], aged 40, and Freud, aged 83, at Freud's house in Hampstead, London, in 1939, as the Second World War is about to break out. The play is focused on the two men discussing religion and whether it should be seen as a sign of neurosis.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tu95z2HrufQC |title=Freud's Last Session |last=Germain |first=Mark St |date=2010 |publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |isbn=978-0-8222-2493-8}}</ref> The play was inspired by the 2003 nonfiction book ''The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life'' by ] which also inspired a four-part ] series.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0_C1-fUGLgC |title = The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life|isbn = 978-0-7432-4785-6|last1 = Nicholi|first1 = Armand|date = 7 August 2003| publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/|title=The Question of God | PBS|website=pbs.org}}</ref> The play was made into the 2023 film '']'', directed by Matthew Brown and with ] as Freud. | |||
Freud is employed to more comic effect in the 1983 film ] in which ] plays Freud's ghost who gives love advice to a modern psychiatrist played by ].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D42m3IIrEDoC&pg=PA107|title=Psychiatry and the Cinema |first1=Glen O. |last1=Gabbard |first2=Krin |last2=Gabbard |publisher=] |location=Washington, D.C.|edition=2nd|year=1999|isbn=978-0-88048-964-5|page=107}}</ref> Freud is also presented in a comedic light in the 1989 film, '']''. Portrayed by ], Freud is one of several historical figures recruited by the film's time-traveling lead characters to assist them in passing their high school history class presentation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bill-teds-excellent-adventure-happened-actors-behind-historical-figures-162833834.html |title='Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure': What happened to the actors behind the historical figures? |last=Tilly|first=Chris|publisher=Yahoo Entertainment |date=15 February 2019 |website=Yahoo |access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref> | |||
==Works== | |||
{{Main|Sigmund Freud bibliography}} | |||
===Books=== | |||
* 1891 '']'' | |||
* 1895 '']'' (co-authored with ]) | |||
* 1899 '']'' | |||
* 1901 ''On Dreams'' (abridged version of ''The Interpretation of Dreams'') | |||
* 1904 '']'' | |||
* 1905 '']'' | |||
* 1905 '']'' | |||
* 1907 '']'' | |||
* 1910 ''Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis'' | |||
* 1910 '']'' | |||
* 1913 '']'' | |||
* 1915–17 '']'' | |||
* 1920 '']'' | |||
* 1921 '']'' | |||
* 1923 '']'' | |||
* 1926 ''Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety'' | |||
* 1926 '']'' | |||
* 1927 '']'' | |||
* 1930 '']'' | |||
* 1933 ''New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis'' | |||
* 1939 '']'' | |||
* 1940 '']'' | |||
* 1967 ''Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study'', with William C. Bullit | |||
===Case histories=== | |||
* 1905 Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (the ] case history) | |||
* 1909 Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (the ] case history) | |||
* 1909 Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the ] case history) | |||
* 1911 Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (the ] case) | |||
* 1918 From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (the ] case history) | |||
* 1920 The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=408 |title=The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud |publisher=Lacanianworks.net |access-date=20 August 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031160343/http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=408 |archive-date=31 October 2014}}</ref> | |||
* 1923 A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis (the ] case) | |||
===Papers on sexuality=== | |||
* 1906 My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses | |||
* 1908 '']'' | |||
* 1910 A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men | |||
* 1912 Types of Onset of Neurosis | |||
* 1912 The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life | |||
* 1913 The Disposition to Obsessional Neurosis | |||
* 1915 A Case of Paranoia Running Counter to the Psycho-Analytic Theory of the Disease | |||
* 1919 A Child is Being Beaten: A Contribution to the Origin of Sexual Perversions | |||
* 1922 ] | |||
* 1922 Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality | |||
* 1923 Infantile Genital Organisation | |||
* 1924 The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex | |||
* 1925 Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes | |||
* 1927 Fetishism | |||
* 1931 Female Sexuality | |||
* 1933 Femininity | |||
* 1938 The Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence | |||
===Autobiographical papers=== | |||
* 1899 An Autobiographical Note | |||
* 1914 ] | |||
* 1925 An Autobiographical Study (1935 Revised edition with Postscript). | |||
===The Standard Edition=== | |||
'']''. Translated from the German under the general editorship of ], in collaboration with ], assisted by ], ], and Angela Richards. 24 volumes, London: ] and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953–1974. | |||
* Vol. I Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886–1899). | |||
* Vol. II Studies in Hysteria (1893–1895). By Josef Breuer and S. Freud. | |||
* Vol. III Early Psycho-Analytic Publications (1893–1899) | |||
* Vol. IV The Interpretation of Dreams (I) (1900) | |||
* Vol. V The Interpretation of Dreams (II) and On Dreams (1900–1901) | |||
* Vol. VI The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) | |||
* Vol. VII A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works (1901–1905) | |||
* Vol. VIII Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) | |||
* Vol. IX Jensen's 'Gradiva,' and Other Works (1906–1909) | |||
* Vol. X The Cases of 'Little Hans' and the Rat Man' (1909) | |||
* Vol. XI Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Leonardo and Other Works (1910) | |||
* Vol. XII The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works (1911–1913) | |||
* Vol. XIII Totem and Taboo and Other Works (1913–1914) | |||
* Vol. XIV On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Meta-psychology and Other Works (1914–1916) | |||
* Vol. XV Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Parts I and II) (1915–1916) | |||
* Vol. XVI Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Part III) (1916–1917) | |||
* Vol. XVII An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works (1917–1919) | |||
* Vol. XVIII Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and Other Works (1920–1922) | |||
* Vol. XIX The Ego and the Id and Other Works (1923–1925) | |||
* Vol. XX An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925–1926) | |||
* Vol. XXI The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents and Other Works (1927–1931) | |||
* Vol. XXII New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1932–1936) | |||
* Vol. XXIII Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1937–1939) | |||
* Vol. XXIV Indexes and Bibliographies (Compiled by Angela Richards,1974) | |||
===The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud=== | |||
A revised and newly annotated edition of the Standard Edition texts was published in 2024 under the editorship of ].<ref></ref> | |||
==Correspondence== | |||
* ''Selected Letters of Sigmund Freud to ]'', Ansh Mehta and Ankit Patel (eds.), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-5151-3703-0}} | |||
* ''Correspondence: Sigmund Freud, ]'', Cambridge: Polity 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-7456-4149-2}} | |||
* '' The Letters of Sigmund Freud and ]: Inside Psychoanalysis'' (eds. E.J. Lieberman and Robert Kramer). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. | |||
* ''The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to ], 1887–1904'', (editor and translator ]), 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-674-15420-9}} | |||
* ''The Sigmund Freud ] Letters'', Princeton University Press; Abr edition, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-691-03643-4}} | |||
* ''The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and ], 1907–1925'', Karnac Books, 2002, {{ISBN|978-1-85575-051-7}} | |||
* ''The Letters of Sigmund Freud to ], 1921–1939: Psychoanalysis and Politics in the Interwar Years''. Edited By Gertie Bögels. London: Routledge 2022. | |||
* , Belknap Press, ], 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-674-15424-7}} | |||
* ''The Sigmund Freud – ] Correspondence 1908–1939'', London: Other Press 2003, {{ISBN|1-892746-32-8}} | |||
* , Belknap Press, ], 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-674-17418-4}} | |||
* , Belknap Press, ], 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-674-17419-1}} | |||
* , Belknap Press, ], 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-674-00297-5}} | |||
* , Belknap Press, ], {{ISBN|978-0-674-52828-4}} | |||
* ''Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and ]''. Trans. Eric Mosbacher. Heinrich Meng and ]. eds London: ] and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1963. | |||
* ''Sigmund Freud and ]; Letters'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1972, {{ISBN|978-0-15-133490-2}} | |||
* ''The Letters of Sigmund Freud and ]'', New York University Press, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0-8147-2585-6}} | |||
* '' Open Letters Between ] and Freud''. London: New Commonwealth, 1934. | |||
* ''Letters of Sigmund Freud'', selected and edited by ], New York: Basic Books, 1960, {{ISBN|978-0-486-27105-7}} | |||
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* Blauner, Andrew, ed. ''On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud'', Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. {{ISBN|9780691242439}} | |||
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* ]. ''Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience''. Peru, IL: Open Court, 1999. | |||
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* Cole, J. Preston. ''The Problematic Self in Kierkegaard and Freud''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971. | |||
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* ]. '']: Freud's Legacy in Dispute''. New York: The New York Review of Books, 1995. | |||
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* Crews, Frederick. ''Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend''. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. | |||
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* ]. ''Killing Freud: Twentieth-Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis''. New York: Continuum, 2003. | |||
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* Dufresne, Todd, ed. ''Against Freud: Critics Talk Back''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. | |||
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* ]. ''Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. | |||
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* Ellenberger, Henri. '']: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry''. New York: Basic Books, 1970. | |||
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* Esterson, Allen. ''Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud''. Chicago: Open Court, 1993. | |||
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* ]. ''The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason''. London: Fontana Press, 1993. | |||
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* Grünbaum, Adolf. ''Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis''. Madison, Connecticut: International Universities Press, 1993. | |||
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* Hale, Nathan G., Jr. ''Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. | |||
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* Hale, Nathan G., Jr. ''The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985''. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. | |||
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* Hirschmüller, Albrecht. ''The Life and Work of Josef Breuer''. New York University Press, 1989. | |||
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* ]. ''The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Volume 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis''. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1961. | |||
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* Macmillan, Malcolm. ''Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997. | |||
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* ]. '']: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud''. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974. | |||
* ]. '']: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory''. New York: Pocket Books, 1998. | |||
* Nagorski, Andrew. ''Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London''. London: Icon, 2022 | |||
* ]. '']: An Essay on Interpretation''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. | |||
* ]. '']''. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1961. | |||
* ]. ''Freud and His Followers''. New York: Knopf, 1975, hardcover; trade paperback, Da Capo Press (22 March 1992), {{ISBN|978-0-306-80472-4}}. | |||
* Roazen, Paul. ''Freud: Political and Social Thought''. London: Hogarth Press, 1969. | |||
* Roth, Michael, ed. ''Freud: Conflict and Culture''. New York: Vintage, 1998. | |||
* Schur, Max. ''Freud: Living and Dying''. New York: International Universities Press, 1972. | |||
* ]. ''Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. | |||
* ]. '']: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis''. Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005. | |||
* ]. ''Freud''. Fontana, 1971. | |||
* Wollheim, Richard, and James Hopkins, eds. ''Philosophical Essays on Freud''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. | |||
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* {{cite book | last =Breger| first =Louis |author-link =Louis Breger| date =2001 | title = Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision | location =New York | publisher =Wiley }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Clark | first = Ronald W. | author-link =Ronald W. Clark| date = 1980 | title = Freud: the Man and His Cause | location = London | publisher = Jonathan Cape }} | |||
* ] (2017). ''Freud: The Making of an Illusion''. New York: Metropolitan Books. | |||
* {{cite book | last = Ferris | first = Paul |author-link =Paul Ferris (Welsh writer)| date = 1997 | title = Dr Freud: A Life | location = London| publisher = Sinclair-Stevenson }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Ffytche | first = Matt | date = 2022 | title = Sigmund Freud |series= Critical Lives| location = London | publisher = Reaktion Books }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Flem | first =Lydia | date = 2002 | title = Freud the Man: An Intellectual Biography | location = New York | publisher =Other Press }} | |||
* ], Grubrich-Simitis, Ilse (eds.) (1976) ''Sigmund Freud: His Life in Pictures and Words'' New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |||
* Freud, Martin (1958) ''Sigmund Freud: Man and Father''. New York: Vanguard Press. | |||
* {{cite book | last = Gay | first =Peter |author-link =Peter Gay| date = 2006|orig-date=1988 | edition = 2nd|title = ]| location =New York| publisher= W. W. Norton }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Jones | first = Ernest |author-link =Ernest Jones| date = 1953 | title =]: Vol 1: The Young Freud 1856–1900 | location = London | publisher = Hogarth Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Jones | first = Ernest | date = 1955 | title = Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Vol 2: The Years of Maturity 1901–1919| location = London | publisher = Hogarth Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Jones | first = Ernest | date = 1957 | title = Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Vol 3: The Final Years 1919–1939| location = London | publisher = Hogarth Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Jones | first = Ernest | date = 1961 | title = Sigmund Freud: Life and Work | edition =Abridged | editor-last1=Trilling |editor-first1=Lionel |editor-link1=Lionel Trilling |editor-last2=Marcus |editor-first2=Stephen |editor-link2=Stephen Marcus| location =New York | publisher =Basic Books }} | |||
* {{cite book | last =Kahr| first =Brett|author-link =|date =2021 | title =Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and the Nazis| series= Freud Museum London Series| location =London | publisher =Karnac }} | |||
*{{cite book | last = Nagorski | first = Andrew | date = 2022 | title =Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London | location = London | publisher = Icon Books}} | |||
* {{cite book | last =Phillips | first =Adam |author-link =Adam Phillips (psychologist)| date = 2014 | title = Becoming Freud | location = New Haven, CT | publisher =Yale University Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last =Puner | first =Helen Walker | date =1947 | title =Freud: His Life and Mind | location =New York | publisher =Howell Soskin }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Roudinesco | first =Élisabeth |author-link =Élisabeth Roudinesco| date = 2016 | title = Freud: In His Time and Ours | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | publisher = Harvard University Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Schur | first =Max |author-link =Max Schur| date = 1972 | title = Freud: Living and Dying | location = London | publisher =Hogarth Press }} | |||
* {{cite book | last =Sheppard | first = Ruth| date = 2012 | title =Explorer of the Mind: The Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud | location =London | publisher = Andre Deutsch }} | |||
* {{cite book | last = Whitebook | first =Joel | date = 2017 | title = Freud: An Intellectual Biography | location =Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press }} | |||
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Founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939) "Freud" and "Freudian" redirect here. For other uses, see Freudian slip and Freud (disambiguation).
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Born | Sigismund Schlomo Freud (1856-05-06)6 May 1856 Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) |
Died | 23 September 1939(1939-09-23) (aged 83) Hampstead, London, England |
Resting place | Freud Corner, London, UK |
Education | University of Vienna (MD) |
Known for | Psychoanalysis, including the theories of id, ego and super-ego, oedipus complex, repression, defence mechanism, stages of psychosexual development |
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Children | 6, including Ernst and Anna |
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Sigmund Freud (/frɔɪd/ FROYD; German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. Following the German annexation of Austria in March 1938, Freud left Austria to escape Nazi persecution. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.
In founding psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfilments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis, Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression, and neurotic guilt. In his later work, Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.
Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and across the humanities. It thus continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate concerning its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or hinders the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. W. H. Auden's 1940 poetic tribute to Freud describes him as having created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives".
Biography
Early life and education
Sigmund Freud was born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire (in Czech Příbor, now Czech Republic), the first of eight children. Both of his parents were from Galicia. His father, Jakob Freud, a wool merchant, had two sons, Emanuel and Philipp, by his first marriage. Jakob's family were Hasidic Jews and, although Jakob himself had moved away from the tradition, he came to be known for his Torah study. He and Freud's mother, Amalia Nathansohn, who was 20 years younger and his third wife, were married by Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer on 29 July 1855. They were struggling financially and living in a rented room, in a locksmith's house at Schlossergasse 117 when their son Sigmund was born. He was born with a caul, which his mother saw as a positive omen for the boy's future.
In 1859, the Freud family left Freiberg. Freud's half-brothers immigrated to Manchester, England, parting him from the "inseparable" playmate of his early childhood, Emanuel's son, John. Jakob Freud took his wife and two children (Freud's sister, Anna, was born in 1858; a brother, Julius born in 1857, had died in infancy) firstly to Leipzig and then in 1860 to Vienna where four sisters and a brother were born: Rosa (b. 1860), Marie (b. 1861), Adolfine (b. 1862), Paula (b. 1864), Alexander (b. 1866). In 1865, the nine-year-old Freud entered the Leopoldstädter Kommunal-Realgymnasium, a prominent high school. He proved to be an outstanding pupil and graduated from the Matura in 1873 with honors. He loved literature and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
Freud entered the University of Vienna at age 17. He had planned to study law, but joined the medical faculty at the university, where his studies included philosophy under Franz Brentano, physiology under Ernst Brücke, and zoology under Darwinist professor Carl Claus. In 1876, Freud spent four weeks at Claus's zoological research station in Trieste, dissecting hundreds of eels in an inconclusive search for their male reproductive organs. In 1877, Freud moved to Ernst Brücke's physiology laboratory where he spent six years comparing the brains of humans with those of other vertebrates such as frogs, lampreys as well as also invertebrates, for example crayfish. His research work on the biology of nervous tissue proved seminal for the subsequent discovery of the neuron in the 1890s. Freud's research work was interrupted in 1879 by the obligation to undertake a year's compulsory military service. The lengthy downtimes enabled him to complete a commission to translate four essays from John Stuart Mill's collected works. He graduated with an MD in March 1881.
Early career and marriage
In 1882 Freud began his medical career at Vienna General Hospital. His research work in cerebral anatomy led to the publication in 1884 of an influential paper on the palliative effects of cocaine, and his work on aphasia would form the basis of his first book On Aphasia: A Critical Study, published in 1891. Over a three-year period, Freud worked in various departments of the hospital. His time spent in Theodor Meynert's psychiatric clinic and as a locum in a local asylum led to an increased interest in clinical work. His substantial body of published research led to his appointment as a university lecturer or docent in neuropathology in 1885, a non-salaried post but one which entitled him to give lectures at the University of Vienna.
In 1886 Freud resigned his hospital post and entered private practice specializing in "nervous disorders". The same year he married Martha Bernays, the granddaughter of Isaac Bernays, a chief rabbi in Hamburg. Freud was, as an atheist, dismayed at the requirement in Austria for a Jewish religious ceremony and briefly considered, before dismissing, the prospect of joining the Protestant 'Confession' to avoid one. A civil ceremony for Bernays and Freud took place on 13 September and a religious ceremony took place the following day, with Freud having been hastily tutored in the Hebrew prayers. The Freuds had six children: Mathilde (b. 1887), Jean-Martin (b. 1889), Oliver (b. 1891), Ernst (b. 1892), Sophie (b. 1893), and Anna (b. 1895). From 1891 until they left Vienna in 1938, Freud and his family lived in an apartment at Berggasse 19, near Innere Stadt.
On 8 December 1897 Freud was initiated into the German Jewish cultural association B'nai B'rith, to which he remained linked for all his life. Freud gave a speech on the interpretation of dreams, which had an enthusiastic reception. It anticipated the book of the same name, which was published for the first time two years later.
In 1896, Minna Bernays, Martha Freud's sister, became a permanent member of the Freud household after the death of her fiancé. The close relationship she formed with Freud led to rumours, started by Carl Jung, of an affair. The discovery of a Swiss hotel guest-book entry for 13 August 1898, signed by Freud whilst travelling with his sister-in-law, has been presented as evidence of the affair.
Freud began smoking tobacco at age 24; initially a cigarette smoker, he became a cigar smoker. He believed smoking enhanced his capacity to work and that he could exercise self-control in moderating it. Despite health warnings from colleague Wilhelm Fliess, he remained a smoker, eventually developing buccal cancer. Freud suggested to Fliess in 1897 that addictions, including that to tobacco, were substitutes for masturbation, "the one great habit."
Freud had greatly admired his philosophy tutor, Franz Brentano, who was known for his theories of perception and introspection. Brentano discussed the possible existence of the unconscious mind in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874). Although Brentano denied its existence, his discussion of the unconscious probably helped introduce Freud to the concept. Freud owned and made use of Charles Darwin's major evolutionary writings and was also influenced by Eduard von Hartmann's The Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). Other texts of importance to Freud were by Fechner and Herbart, with the latter's Psychology as Science arguably considered to be of underrated significance in this respect. Freud also drew on the work of Theodor Lipps, who was one of the main contemporary theorists of the concepts of the unconscious and empathy.
Though Freud was reluctant to associate his psychoanalytic insights with prior philosophical theories, attention has been drawn to analogies between his work and that of both Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. In 1908, Freud said that he occasionally read Nietzsche, and was strongly fascinated by his writings, but did not study him, because he found Nietzsche's "intuitive insights" resembled too much his own work at the time, and also because he was overwhelmed by the "wealth of ideas" he encountered when he read Nietzsche. Freud sometimes would deny the influence of Nietzsche's ideas. One historian quotes Peter L. Rudnytsky, who says that based on Freud's correspondence with his adolescent friend Eduard Silberstein, Freud read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and probably the first two of the Untimely Meditations when he was seventeen. Freud bought Nietzsche's collected works in 1900; telling Wilhelm Fliess that he hoped to find in Nietzsche's works "the words for much that remains mute in me." Later, he said he had not yet opened them. Freud came to treat Nietzsche's writings, according to Peter Gay, "as texts to be resisted far more than to be studied." His interest in philosophy declined after he decided on a career in neurology.
Freud read William Shakespeare in English; his understanding of human psychology may have been partially derived from Shakespeare's plays.
Freud's Jewish origins and his allegiance to his secular Jewish identity were of significant influence in the formation of his intellectual and moral outlook, especially concerning his intellectual non-conformism, as he pointed out in his Autobiographical Study. They would also have a substantial effect on the content of psychoanalytic ideas, particularly in respect of their common concerns with depth interpretation and "the bounding of desire by law".
Relationship with Fliess
See also: Metapsychology § Freud and the als ob problemDuring the formative period of his work, Freud valued and came to rely on the intellectual and emotional support of his friend Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin-based ear, nose, and throat specialist whom he had first met in 1887. Both men saw themselves as isolated from the prevailing clinical and theoretical mainstream because of their ambitions to develop radical new theories of sexuality. Fliess developed highly eccentric theories of human biorhythms and a nasogenital connection which are today considered pseudoscientific. He shared Freud's views on the importance of certain aspects of sexuality – masturbation, coitus interruptus, and the use of condoms – in the etiology of what was then called the "actual neuroses," primarily neurasthenia and certain physically manifested anxiety symptoms. They maintained an extensive correspondence from which Freud drew on Fliess's speculations on infantile sexuality and bisexuality to elaborate and revise his own ideas. His first attempt at a systematic theory of the mind, his Project for a Scientific Psychology, was developed as a metapsychology with Fliess as interlocutor. However, Freud's efforts to build a bridge between neurology and psychology were eventually abandoned after they had reached an impasse, as his letters to Fliess reveal, though some ideas of the Project were to be taken up again in the concluding chapter of The Interpretation of Dreams.
Freud had Fliess repeatedly operate on his nose and sinuses to treat "nasal reflex neurosis", and subsequently referred his patient Emma Eckstein to him. According to Freud, her history of symptoms included severe leg pains with consequent restricted mobility, as well as stomach and menstrual pains. These pains were, according to Fliess's theories, caused by habitual masturbation which, as the tissue of the nose and genitalia were linked, was curable by removal of part of the middle turbinate. Fliess's surgery proved disastrous, resulting in profuse, recurrent nasal bleeding; he had left a half-metre of gauze in Eckstein's nasal cavity whose subsequent removal left her permanently disfigured. At first, though aware of Fliess's culpability and regarding the remedial surgery in horror, Freud could bring himself only to intimate delicately in his correspondence with Fliess the nature of his disastrous role, and in subsequent letters maintained a tactful silence on the matter or else returned to the face-saving topic of Eckstein's hysteria. Freud ultimately, in light of Eckstein's history of adolescent self-cutting and irregular nasal (and menstrual) bleeding, concluded that Fliess was "completely without blame", as Eckstein's post-operative haemorrhages were hysterical "wish-bleedings" linked to "an old wish to be loved in her illness" and triggered as a means of "rearousing affection". Eckstein nonetheless continued her analysis with Freud. She was restored to full mobility and went on to practice psychoanalysis herself.
Freud, who had called Fliess "the Kepler of biology", later concluded that a combination of a homoerotic attachment and the residue of his "specifically Jewish mysticism" lay behind his loyalty to his Jewish friend and his consequent overestimation of both his theoretical and clinical work. Their friendship came to an acrimonious end with Fliess angry at Freud's unwillingness to endorse his general theory of sexual periodicity and accusing him of collusion in the plagiarism of his work. After Fliess failed to respond to Freud's offer of collaboration over the publication of his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in 1906, their relationship came to an end.
Development of psychoanalysis
In October 1885, Freud went to Paris on a three-month fellowship to study with Jean-Martin Charcot, a renowned neurologist who was conducting scientific research into hypnosis. He was later to recall the experience of this stay as catalytic in turning him toward the practice of medical psychopathology and away from a less financially promising career in neurology research. Charcot specialized in the study of hysteria and susceptibility to hypnosis, which he frequently demonstrated with patients on stage in front of an audience.
Once he had set up in private practice in Vienna in 1886, Freud began using hypnosis in his clinical work. He adopted the approach of his friend and collaborator, Josef Breuer, in a type of hypnosis that was different from the French methods he had studied, in that it did not use suggestion. The treatment of one particular patient of Breuer's proved to be transformative for Freud's clinical practice. Described as Anna O., she was invited to talk about her symptoms while under hypnosis (she would coin the phrase "talking cure"). Her symptoms became reduced in severity as she retrieved memories of traumatic incidents associated with their onset.
The inconsistent results of Freud's early clinical work eventually led him to abandon hypnosis, having concluded that more consistent and effective symptom relief could be achieved by encouraging patients to talk freely, without censorship or inhibition, about whatever ideas or memories occurred to them. He called this procedure "free association". In conjunction with this, Freud found that patients' dreams could be fruitfully analyzed to reveal the complex structuring of unconscious material and to demonstrate the psychic action of repression which, he had concluded, underlay symptom formation. By 1896 he was using the term "psychoanalysis" to refer to his new clinical method and the theories on which it was based.
Freud's development of these new theories took place during a period in which he experienced heart irregularities, disturbing dreams and periods of depression, a "neurasthenia" which he linked to the death of his father in 1896 and which prompted a "self-analysis" of his own dreams and memories of childhood. His explorations of his feelings of hostility to his father and rivalrous jealousy over his mother's affections led him to fundamentally revise his theory of the origin of the neuroses.
Based on his early clinical work, Freud postulated that unconscious memories of sexual molestation in early childhood were a necessary precondition for psychoneuroses (hysteria and obsessional neurosis), a formulation now known as Freud's seduction theory. In the light of his self-analysis, Freud abandoned the theory that every neurosis can be traced back to the effects of infantile sexual abuse, now arguing that infantile sexual scenarios still had a causative function, but it did not matter whether they were real or imagined and that in either case, they became pathogenic only when acting as repressed memories.
This transition from the theory of infantile sexual trauma as a general explanation of how all neuroses originate to one that presupposes autonomous infantile sexuality provided the basis for Freud's subsequent formulation of the theory of the Oedipus complex.
Freud described the evolution of his clinical method and set out his theory of the psychogenetic origins of hysteria, demonstrated in several case histories, in Studies on Hysteria published in 1895 (co-authored with Josef Breuer). In 1899, he published The Interpretation of Dreams in which, following a critical review of existing theory, Freud gives detailed interpretations of his own and his patients' dreams in terms of wish-fulfillments made subject to the repression and censorship of the "dream-work". He then sets out the theoretical model of mental structure (the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious) on which this account is based. An abridged version, On Dreams, was published in 1901. In works that would win him a more general readership, Freud applied his theories outside the clinical setting in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) and Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905). In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, published in 1905, Freud elaborates his theory of infantile sexuality, describing its "polymorphous perverse" forms and the functioning of the "drives", to which it gives rise, in the formation of sexual identity. The same year he published Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, which became one of his more famous and controversial case studies. Known as the 'Dora' case study, for Freud it was illustrative of hysteria as a symptom and contributed to his understanding of the importance of transference as a clinical phenomena. In other of his early case studies Freud set out to describe the symptomatology of obsessional neurosis in the case of the Rat man, and phobia in the case of Little Hans.
Early followers
In 1902, Freud, at last, realised his long-standing ambition to be made a university professor. The title "professor extraordinarius" was important to Freud for the recognition and prestige it conferred, there being no salary or teaching duties attached to the post (he would be granted the enhanced status of "professor ordinarius" in 1920). Despite support from the university, his appointment had been blocked in successive years by the political authorities and it was secured only with the intervention of an influential ex-patient, Baroness Marie Ferstel, who (supposedly) had to bribe the minister of education with a valuable painting.
Freud continued with the regular series of lectures on his work which, since the mid-1880s as a docent of Vienna University, he had been delivering to small audiences every Saturday evening at the lecture hall of the university's psychiatric clinic. From the autumn of 1902, a number of Viennese physicians who had expressed interest in Freud's work were invited to meet at his apartment every Wednesday afternoon to discuss issues relating to psychology and neuropathology. This group was called the Wednesday Psychological Society (Psychologische Mittwochs-Gesellschaft) and it marked the beginnings of the worldwide psychoanalytic movement.
Freud founded this discussion group at the suggestion of the physician Wilhelm Stekel. Stekel had studied medicine; his conversion to psychoanalysis is variously attributed to his successful treatment by Freud for a sexual problem or as a result of his reading The Interpretation of Dreams, to which he subsequently gave a positive review in the Viennese daily newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblatt. The other three original members whom Freud invited to attend, Alfred Adler, Max Kahane, and Rudolf Reitler, were also physicians and all five were Jewish by birth. Both Kahane and Reitler were childhood friends of Freud who had gone to university with him and kept abreast of Freud's developing ideas by attending his Saturday evening lectures. In 1901, Kahane, who first introduced Stekel to Freud's work, had opened an out-patient psychotherapy institute of which he was the director in Vienna. In the same year, his medical textbook, Outline of Internal Medicine for Students and Practicing Physicians, was published. In it, he provided an outline of Freud's psychoanalytic method. Kahane broke with Freud and left the Wednesday Psychological Society in 1907 for unknown reasons and in 1923 committed suicide. Reitler was the director of an establishment providing thermal cures in Dorotheergasse which had been founded in 1901. He died prematurely in 1917. Adler, regarded as the most formidable intellect among the early Freud circle, was a socialist who in 1898 had written a health manual for the tailoring trade. He was particularly interested in the potential social impact of psychiatry.
Max Graf, a Viennese musicologist and father of "Little Hans", who had first encountered Freud in 1900 and joined the Wednesday group soon after its initial inception, described the ritual and atmosphere of the early meetings of the society:
The gatherings followed a definite ritual. First one of the members would present a paper. Then, black coffee and cakes were served; cigars and cigarettes were on the table and were consumed in great quantities. After a social quarter of an hour, the discussion would begin. The last and decisive word was always spoken by Freud himself. There was the atmosphere of the foundation of a religion in that room. Freud himself was its new prophet who made the heretofore prevailing methods of psychological investigation appear superficial.
By 1906, the group had grown to sixteen members, including Otto Rank, who was employed as the group's paid secretary. In the same year, Freud began a correspondence with Carl Gustav Jung who was by then already an academically acclaimed researcher into word-association and the Galvanic Skin Response, and a lecturer at Zurich University, although still only an assistant to Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli Mental Hospital in Zürich. In March 1907, Jung and Ludwig Binswanger, also a Swiss psychiatrist, travelled to Vienna to visit Freud and attend the discussion group. Thereafter, they established a small psychoanalytic group in Zürich. In 1908, reflecting its growing institutional status, the Wednesday group was reconstituted as the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society with Freud as president, a position he relinquished in 1910 in favor of Adler in the hope of neutralizing his increasingly critical standpoint.
The first woman member, Margarete Hilferding, joined the Society in 1910 and the following year she was joined by Tatiana Rosenthal and Sabina Spielrein who were both Russian psychiatrists and graduates of the Zürich University medical school. Before the completion of her studies, Spielrein had been a patient of Jung at the Burghölzli and the clinical and personal details of their relationship became the subject of an extensive correspondence between Freud and Jung. Both women would go on to make important contributions to the work of the Russian Psychoanalytic Society founded in 1910.
Freud's early followers met together formally for the first time at the Hotel Bristol, Salzburg on 27 April 1908. This meeting, which was retrospectively deemed to be the first International Psychoanalytic Congress, was convened at the suggestion of Ernest Jones, then a London-based neurologist who had discovered Freud's writings and begun applying psychoanalytic methods in his clinical work. Jones had met Jung at a conference the previous year and they met up again in Zürich to organize the Congress. There were, as Jones records, "forty-two present, half of whom were or became practising analysts." In addition to Jones and the Viennese and Zürich contingents accompanying Freud and Jung, also present and notable for their subsequent importance in the psychoanalytic movement were Karl Abraham and Max Eitingon from Berlin, Sándor Ferenczi from Budapest and the New York-based Abraham Brill.
Important decisions were taken at the Congress to advance the impact of Freud's work. A journal, the Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen, was launched in 1909 under the editorship of Jung. This was followed in 1910 by the monthly Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse edited by Adler and Stekel, in 1911 by Imago, a journal devoted to the application of psychoanalysis to the field of cultural and literary studies edited by Rank and in 1913 by the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, also edited by Rank. Plans for an international association of psychoanalysts were put in place and these were implemented at the Nuremberg Congress of 1910 where Jung was elected, with Freud's support, as its first president.
Freud turned to Brill and Jones to further his ambition to spread the psychoanalytic cause in the English-speaking world. Both were invited to Vienna following the Salzburg Congress and a division of labour was agreed with Brill given the translation rights for Freud's works, and Jones, who was to take up a post at the University of Toronto later in the year, tasked with establishing a platform for Freudian ideas in North American academic and medical life. Jones's advocacy prepared the way for Freud's visit to the United States, accompanied by Jung and Ferenczi, in September 1909 at the invitation of Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he gave five lectures on psychoanalysis.
The event, at which Freud was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, marked the first public recognition of Freud's work and attracted widespread media interest. Freud's audience included the distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist James Jackson Putnam, Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at Harvard, who invited Freud to his country retreat where they held extensive discussions over a period of four days. Putnam's subsequent public endorsement of Freud's work represented a significant breakthrough for the psychoanalytic cause in the United States. When Putnam and Jones organised the founding of the American Psychoanalytic Association in May 1911 they were elected president and secretary respectively. Brill founded the New York Psychoanalytic Society the same year. His English translations of Freud's work began to appear from 1909.
Resignations from the IPA
Some of Freud's followers subsequently withdrew from the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and founded their own schools.
From 1909, Adler's views on topics such as neurosis began to differ markedly from those held by Freud. As Adler's position appeared increasingly incompatible with Freudianism, a series of confrontations between their respective viewpoints took place at the meetings of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society in January and February 1911. In February 1911, Adler, then the president of the society, resigned his position. At this time, Stekel also resigned from his position as vice president of the society. Adler finally left the Freudian group altogether in June 1911 to form his own organization with nine other members who had also resigned from the group. This new formation was initially called Society for Free Psychoanalysis but it was soon renamed the Society for Individual Psychology. In the period after World War I, Adler became increasingly associated with a psychological position he devised called individual psychology.
In 1912, Jung published Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (published in English in 1916 as Psychology of the Unconscious) making it clear that his views were taking a direction quite different from those of Freud. To distinguish his system from psychoanalysis, Jung called it analytical psychology. Anticipating the final breakdown of the relationship between Freud and Jung, Ernest Jones initiated the formation of a Secret Committee of loyalists charged with safeguarding the theoretical coherence and institutional legacy of the psychoanalytic movement. Formed in the autumn of 1912, the Committee comprised Freud, Jones, Abraham, Ferenczi, Rank, and Hanns Sachs. Max Eitingon joined the Committee in 1919. Each member pledged himself not to make any public departure from the fundamental tenets of psychoanalytic theory before he had discussed his views with the others. After this development, Jung recognised that his position was untenable and resigned as editor of the Jahrbuch and then as president of the IPA in April 1914. The Zürich branch of the IPA withdrew from membership the following July.
Later the same year, Freud published a paper entitled "The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement", the German original being first published in the Jahrbuch, giving his view on the birth and evolution of the psychoanalytic movement and the withdrawal of Adler and Jung from it.
The final defection from Freud's inner circle occurred following the publication in 1924 of Rank's The Trauma of Birth which other members of the Committee read as, in effect, abandoning the Oedipus Complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytic theory. Abraham and Jones became increasingly forceful critics of Rank and though he and Freud were reluctant to end their close and long-standing relationship the break finally came in 1926 when Rank resigned from his official posts in the IPA and left Vienna for Paris. His place on the committee was taken by Anna Freud. Rank eventually settled in the United States where his revisions of Freudian theory were to influence a new generation of therapists uncomfortable with the orthodoxies of the IPA.
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After the founding of the IPA in 1910, an international network of psychoanalytical societies, training institutes, and clinics became well established and a regular schedule of biannual Congresses commenced after the end of World War I to coordinate their activities and as a forum for presenting papers on clinical and theoretical topics.
Abraham and Eitingon founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society in 1910 and then the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and the Poliklinik in 1920. The Poliklinik's innovations of free treatment, and child analysis, and the Berlin Institute's standardisation of psychoanalytic training had a major influence on the wider psychoanalytic movement. In 1927, Ernst Simmel founded the Schloss Tegel Sanatorium on the outskirts of Berlin, the first such establishment to provide psychoanalytic treatment in an institutional framework. Freud organised a fund to help finance its activities and his architect son, Ernst, was commissioned to refurbish the building. It was forced to close in 1931 for economic reasons.
The 1910 Moscow Psychoanalytic Society became the Russian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1922. Freud's Russian followers were the first to benefit from translations of his work, the 1904 Russian translation of The Interpretation of Dreams appearing nine years before Brill's English edition. The Russian Institute was unique in receiving state support for its activities, including publication of translations of Freud's works. Support was abruptly annulled in 1924, when Joseph Stalin came to power, after which psychoanalysis was denounced on ideological grounds.
After helping found the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1911, Ernest Jones returned to Britain from Canada in 1913 and founded the London Psychoanalytic Society. In 1919, he dissolved this organisation and, with its core membership purged of Jungian adherents, founded the British Psychoanalytical Society, serving as its president until 1944. The Institute of Psychoanalysis was established in 1924 and the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis was established in 1926, both under Jones's directorship.
The Vienna Ambulatorium (Clinic) was established in 1922 and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute was founded in 1924 under the directorship of Helene Deutsch. Ferenczi founded the Budapest Psychoanalytic Institute in 1913 and a clinic in 1929.
Psychoanalytic societies and institutes were established in Switzerland (1919), France (1926), Italy (1932), the Netherlands (1933), Norway (1933), and in Palestine (Jerusalem, 1933) by Eitingon, who had fled Berlin after Adolf Hitler came to power. The New York Psychoanalytic Institute was founded in 1931.
The 1922 Berlin Congress was the last Freud attended. By this time his speech had become seriously impaired by the prosthetic device he needed as a result of a series of operations on his cancerous jaw. He kept abreast of developments through regular correspondence with his principal followers and via the circular letters and meetings of the Secret Committee which he continued to attend.
The Committee continued to function until 1927 by which time institutional developments within the IPA, such as the establishment of the International Training Commission, had addressed concerns about the transmission of psychoanalytic theory and practice. There remained, however, significant differences over the issue of lay analysis – i.e. the acceptance of non-medically qualified candidates for psychoanalytic training. Freud set out his case in favour in 1926 in his The Question of Lay Analysis. He was resolutely opposed by the American societies who expressed concerns over professional standards and the risk of litigation (though child analysts were made exempt). These concerns were also shared by some of his European colleagues. Eventually, an agreement was reached allowing societies autonomy in setting criteria for candidature.
In 1930, Freud received the Goethe Prize in recognition of his contributions to psychology and German literary culture.
Patients
Freud used pseudonyms in his case histories. Some patients known by pseudonyms were Cäcilie M. (Anna von Lieben); Dora (Ida Bauer, 1882–1945); Frau Emmy von N. (Fanny Moser); Fräulein Elisabeth von R. (Ilona Weiss); Fräulein Katharina (Aurelia Kronich); Fräulein Lucy R.; Little Hans (Herbert Graf, 1903–1973); Rat Man (Ernst Lanzer); Enos Fingy (Joshua Wild); and Wolf Man (Sergei Pankejeff). Other famous patients included Prince Pedro Augusto of Brazil; H.D.; Emma Eckstein; Gustav Mahler, with whom Freud had only a single, extended consultation; Princess Marie Bonaparte; Edith Banfield Jackson; and Albert Hirst.
Cancer
In 1917, Freud noticed a painful lesion on the roof of his mouth, but, after it receded, did not seek medical attention. By February 1923, the growth had spread, which was when Freud identified it as either leukoplakia or epithelioma brought on by his smoking habit. Reluctant to give up smoking, he initially kept his symptoms a secret. Freud later consulted the dermatologist Maximilian Steiner, who advised him to quit smoking while minimizing the lesion's implications. Shorter after, Freud met with Felix Deutsch, who was also reluctant to tell Freud that the growth was cancerous. He, too, described it as an instance of leukoplakia. Both men told Freud to give up smoking, and Deutsch told him to seek surgical treatment. Freud was treated by Marcus Hajek, a rhinologist whose competence he had previously questioned. Hajek performed an unnecessary cosmetic surgery in his clinic's outpatient department. Freud bled during and after the operation and may narrowly have escaped death. At a subsequent visit Deutsch saw that further surgery would be required but did not tell Freud he had cancer because he was worried that Freud might commit suicide.
Escape from Nazism
In January 1933, the Nazi Party took control of Germany, and Freud's books were prominent among those they burned. Freud remarked to Ernest Jones: "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books." Freud underestimated the growing Nazi threat and remained determined to stay in Vienna, even following the Anschluss of 13 March 1938 and the outbreaks of violent antisemitism that ensued. Jones, the then president of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), flew into Vienna on 15 March determined to get Freud to change his mind and seek exile in Britain. This prospect and the shock of the arrest and interrogation of Anna Freud by the Gestapo finally convinced Freud it was time to leave. Jones left for London the following week with a list provided by Freud of the party of émigrés for whom immigration permits would be required. Back in London, Jones used his personal acquaintance with the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, to expedite the granting of permits. There were seventeen in all, and work permits were provided where relevant. Jones also used his influence in scientific circles, persuading the president of the Royal Society, Sir William Bragg, to write to the Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, requesting to good effect that diplomatic pressure be applied in Berlin and Vienna on Freud's behalf. Freud also had support from American diplomats, notably his ex-patient and American ambassador to France, William Bullitt. Bullitt alerted U.S. President Roosevelt to the increased dangers facing the Freuds, resulting in the American consul-general in Vienna, John Cooper Wiley, arranging regular monitoring of Berggasse 19. He also intervened by phone during the Gestapo interrogation of Anna Freud.
The departure from Vienna began in stages throughout April and May 1938. Freud's grandson, Ernst Halberstadt, and Freud's son Martin's wife and children left for Paris in April. Freud's sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, left for London on 5 May, Martin Freud the following week and Freud's daughter Mathilde and her husband, Robert Hollitscher, on 24 May.
By the end of the month, arrangements for Freud's own departure for London had become stalled, mired in a legally tortuous and financially extortionate process of negotiation with the Nazi authorities. Under regulations imposed on the Jewish population by the Nazis, a Kommissar was appointed to manage Freud's assets and those of the IPA. Freud was allocated to Dr Anton Sauerwald, who had studied chemistry at Vienna University under Professor Josef Herzig, an old friend of Freud's. Sauerwald read Freud's books to further learn about him and became sympathetic. Though required to disclose details of all Freud's bank accounts to his superiors and to arrange the destruction of the historic library of books housed at the IPA, Sauerwald did neither. Instead, he removed evidence of Freud's foreign bank accounts to his own safe-keeping and arranged the storage of the IPA library in the Austrian National Library, where it remained until the end of the war.
Though Sauerwald's intervention lessened the financial burden of the Reich Flight Tax on Freud's declared assets, other substantial charges were levied concerning the debts of the IPA and the valuable collection of antiquities Freud possessed. Unable to access his own accounts, Freud turned to Princess Marie Bonaparte, the most eminent and wealthy of his French followers, who had travelled to Vienna to offer her support, and it was she who made the necessary funds available. This allowed Sauerwald to sign the necessary exit visas for Freud, his wife Martha, and daughter Anna. They left Vienna on the Orient Express on 4 June, accompanied by their housekeeper and a doctor, arriving in Paris the following day, where they stayed as guests of Marie Bonaparte, before travelling overnight to London, arriving at London Victoria station on 6 June.
Among those soon to call on Freud in London to pay their respects were Salvador Dalí, Stefan Zweig, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and H. G. Wells. Representatives of the Royal Society called with the Society's Charter for Freud, who had been elected a Foreign Member in 1936, to sign himself into membership. Marie Bonaparte arrived near the end of June to discuss the fate of Freud's four elderly sisters in Vienna. Her subsequent attempts to get them exit visas failed; they all were murdered in Nazi concentration camps.
In early 1939, Sauerwald arrived in London in mysterious circumstances, where he met Freud's brother Alexander. He was tried and imprisoned in 1945 by an Austrian court for his activities as a Nazi Party official. Responding to a plea from his wife, Anna Freud wrote to confirm that Sauerwald "used his office as our appointed commissar in such a manner as to protect my father". Her intervention helped secure his release in 1947.
The Freud's new family home was established in Hampstead at 20 Maresfield Gardens in September 1938. Freud's architect son, Ernst, designed modifications of the building including the installation of an electric lift. The study and library areas were arranged to create the atmosphere and visual impression of Freud's Vienna consulting rooms. He continued to see patients there until the terminal stages of his illness. He also worked on his last books, Moses and Monotheism, published in German in 1938 and in English the following year and the uncompleted An Outline of Psychoanalysis, which was published posthumously.
Death
By mid-September 1939, Freud's cancer of the jaw was causing him increasingly severe pain and had been declared inoperable. The last book he read, Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, prompted reflections on his own increasing frailty, and a few days later he turned to his doctor, friend, and fellow refugee, Max Schur, reminding him that they had previously discussed the terminal stages of his illness: "Schur, you remember our 'contract' not to leave me in the lurch when the time had come. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense." When Schur replied that he had not forgotten, Freud said, "I thank you," and then, "Talk it over with Anna, and if she thinks it's right, then make an end of it." Anna Freud wanted to postpone her father's death, but Schur convinced her it was pointless to keep him alive; on 21 and 22 September, he administered doses of morphine that resulted in Freud's death at around 3 am on 23 September 1939. However, discrepancies in the accounts Schur gave of his role in Freud's final hours led to inconsistencies between Freud's main biographers. A revised account proposes that Schur was absent from Freud's deathbed when a third and final dose of morphine was administered by Dr. Josephine Stross, a colleague of Anna Freud, leading to Freud's death at around midnight on 23 September 1939.
Three days after his death, Freud's body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, with Harrods acting as funeral directors, on the instructions of his son, Ernst. Funeral orations were given by Ernest Jones and the Austrian author Stefan Zweig. Freud's ashes were later placed in a corner of the crematorium's Ernest George Columbarium on a plinth designed by his son, Ernst, in a sealed ancient Greek bell krater painted with Dionysian scenes that Freud had received as a gift from Marie Bonaparte, and which he had kept in his study in Vienna for many years. After his wife, Martha, died in 1951, her ashes were also placed in the urn.
Ideas
Early work
Freud began his study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1873. He took almost nine years to finish due to his interest in neurophysiological research, specifically investigation of the sexual anatomy of eels and the physiology of the fish nervous system, and because of his interest in studying philosophy with Franz Brentano. He entered private practice in neurology for financial reasons, receiving his M.D. in 1881 at the age of 25. Amongst his principal concerns in the 1880s was the anatomy of the brain, specifically the medulla oblongata. He intervened in the important debates about aphasia with his monograph of 1891, Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, in which he coined the term agnosia and counselled against a too locationist view of the explanation of neurological deficits. Like his contemporary Eugen Bleuler, he emphasized brain function rather than brain structure.
Freud was also an early researcher in the field of cerebral palsy, which was then known as "cerebral paralysis". He published several medical papers on the topic and showed that the disease existed long before other researchers of the period began to study it. He suggested that William John Little, the man who first identified cerebral palsy, was wrong about lack of oxygen during birth being a cause. Instead, he suggested that complications in birth were a symptom.
The origin of Freud's early work with psychoanalysis can be linked to Josef Breuer. Freud credited Breuer with opening the way to the discovery of the psychoanalytical method by his treatment of the case of Anna O. In November 1880, Breuer was called in to treat a highly intelligent 21-year-old woman (Bertha Pappenheim) for a persistent cough and hallucinations that he diagnosed as hysterical. He found that while nursing her dying father, she had developed some transitory symptoms, including visual disorders and paralysis and contractures of limbs, which he also diagnosed as hysterical. Breuer began to see his patient almost every day as the symptoms increased and became more persistent, and observed that she entered states of absence. He found that when, with his encouragement, she told fantasy stories in her evening states of absence her condition improved, and most of her symptoms had disappeared by April 1881. Following the death of her father in that month her condition deteriorated. Breuer recorded that some of the symptoms eventually remitted spontaneously and that full recovery was achieved by inducing her to recall events that had precipitated the occurrence of a specific symptom. In the years immediately following Breuer's treatment, Anna O. spent three short periods in sanatoria with the diagnosis "hysteria" with "somatic symptoms", and some authors have challenged Breuer's published account of a cure. Richard Skues rejects this interpretation, which he sees as stemming from both Freudian and anti-psychoanalytical revisionism — revisionism that regards both Breuer's narrative of the case as unreliable and his treatment of Anna O. as a failure.
Seduction theory
Main article: Freud's seduction theoryIn the early 1890s, Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by what he called his "pressure technique" and his newly developed analytic technique of interpretation and reconstruction. According to Freud's later accounts of this period, as a result of his use of this procedure, most of his patients in the mid-1890s reported early childhood sexual abuse. He believed these accounts, which he used as the basis for his seduction theory, but then he came to believe that some of them were fantasies. He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of infantile masturbation, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies, stemming from innate drives that are sexual and destructive in nature.
Another version of events focuses on Freud's proposing that unconscious memories of infantile sexual abuse were at the root of the psychoneuroses in letters to Fliess in October 1895, before he reported that he had actually discovered such abuse among his patients. In the first half of 1896, Freud published three papers, which led to his seduction theory, stating that he had uncovered, in all of his current patients, deeply repressed memories of sexual abuse in early childhood. In these papers, Freud recorded that his patients were not consciously aware of these memories, and must therefore be present as unconscious memories if they were to result in hysterical symptoms or obsessional neurosis. The patients were subjected to considerable pressure to "reproduce" infantile sexual abuse "scenes" that Freud was convinced had been repressed into the unconscious. Patients were generally unconvinced that their experiences of Freud's clinical procedure indicated actual sexual abuse. He reported that even after a supposed "reproduction" of sexual scenes the patients assured him emphatically of their disbelief.
As well as his pressure technique, Freud's clinical procedures involved analytic inference and the symbolic interpretation of symptoms to trace back to memories of infantile sexual abuse. His claim of one hundred percent confirmation of his theory only served to reinforce previously expressed reservations from his colleagues about the validity of findings obtained through his suggestive techniques. Freud subsequently showed inconsistency as to whether his seduction theory was still compatible with his later findings. In an addendum to The Aetiology of Hysteria he stated: "All this is true , but it must be remembered that at the time I wrote it I had not yet freed myself from my overvaluation of reality and my low valuation of phantasy". Some years later Freud explicitly rejected the claim of his colleague Ferenczi that his patients' reports of sexual molestation were actual memories instead of fantasies, and he tried to dissuade Ferenczi from making his views public. Karin Ahbel-Rappe concludes that "Freud marked out and started down a trail of investigation into the nature of the experience of infantile incest and its impact on the human psyche, and then abandoned this direction for the most part."
Cocaine
As a medical researcher, Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine as a stimulant as well as analgesic. He believed that cocaine was a cure for many mental and physical problems, and in his 1884 paper "On Coca" he extolled its virtues. Between 1883 and 1887 he wrote several articles recommending medical applications, including its use as an antidepressant. He narrowly missed out on obtaining scientific priority for discovering its anesthetic properties of which he was aware but had mentioned only in passing. (Karl Koller, a colleague of Freud's in Vienna, received that distinction in 1884 after reporting to a medical society the ways cocaine could be used in delicate eye surgery.) Freud also recommended cocaine as a cure for morphine addiction. He had introduced cocaine to his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, who had become addicted to morphine taken to relieve years of excruciating nerve pain resulting from an infection acquired after injuring himself while performing an autopsy. His claim that Fleischl-Marxow was cured of his addiction was premature, though he never acknowledged that he had been at fault. Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of "cocaine psychosis", and soon returned to using morphine, dying a few years later still suffering from intolerable pain.
The application as an anaesthetic turned out to be one of the few safe uses of cocaine, and as reports of addiction and overdose began to filter in from many places in the world, Freud's medical reputation became somewhat tarnished. After the "Cocaine Episode" Freud ceased to publicly recommend the use of the drug, but continued to take it himself occasionally for depression, migraine and nasal inflammation during the early 1890s, before discontinuing its use in 1896.
Unconscious
Main article: Unconscious mindThe concept of the unconscious, which Freud regarded as already well known amongst poets, was important to his theories and ideas; he also believed that it was his responsibility to ensure that it received scientific recognition in the field of psychology.
Freud states explicitly that his concept of the unconscious as he first formulated it was based on the theory of repression. In his formulations of the concept of repression in his 1915 paper 'Repression' (Standard Edition XIV) Freud introduces the distinction in the unconscious between primary repression linked to the universal taboo on incest ('innately present originally') and repression ('after expulsion') that was a product of an individual's life history ('acquired in the course of the ego's development') in which something that was at one point conscious is rejected or eliminated from consciousness.
In his account of the development and modification of his theory of unconscious mental processes he sets out in his 1915 paper 'The Unconscious' (Standard Edition XIV), Freud identifies the three perspectives he employs: the dynamic, the economic and the topographical.
The dynamic perspective concerns firstly the constitution of the unconscious by repression and secondly the process of "censorship" which maintains unwanted, anxiety-inducing thoughts as such. Here Freud is drawing on observations from his earliest clinical work in the treatment of hysteria.
In the economic perspective the focus is on the trajectories of the repressed contents ("the vicissitudes of sexual impulses") as they undergo complex transformations in the process of both symptom formation and normal unconscious thought such as dreams and slips of the tongue. These were topics Freud explored in detail in The Interpretation of Dreams and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Whereas both these former perspectives focus on the unconscious as it is about to enter consciousness, the topographical perspective represents a shift in which the systemic properties of the unconscious, its characteristic processes, and modes of operation such as Condensation and Displacement, are placed in the foreground.
This "first topography" presents a model of psychic structure comprising three systems:
- The System Ucs – the unconscious: "primary process" mentation governed by the pleasure principle characterised by "exemption from mutual contradiction, ... mobility of cathexes, timelessness, and replacement of external by psychical reality." ('The Unconscious' (1915) Standard Edition XIV).
- The System Pcs – the preconscious in which the unconscious thing-presentations of the primary process are bound by the secondary processes of language (word presentations), a prerequisite for their becoming available to consciousness.
- The System Cns – conscious thought governed by the reality principle.
In his later work, notably in The Ego and the Id (1923), a second topography is introduced comprising id, ego and super-ego, which is superimposed on the first without replacing it. In this later formulation of the concept of the unconscious the id comprises a reservoir of instincts or drives, a portion of them being hereditary or innate, a portion repressed or acquired. As such, from the economic perspective, the id is the prime source of psychical energy and from the dynamic perspective it conflicts with the ego and the super-ego which, genetically speaking, are diversifications of the id.
Dreams
Main article: The Interpretation of DreamsIn Freud's theory dreams are instigated by the daily occurrences and thoughts of everyday life. In what Freud called the "dream-work", these "secondary process" thoughts ("word presentations"), governed by the rules of language and the reality principle, become subject to the "primary process" of unconscious thought ("thing presentations") governed by the pleasure principle, wish gratification and the repressed sexual scenarios of childhood. Because of the disturbing nature of the latter and other repressed thoughts and desires which may have become linked to them, the dream-work operates a censorship function, disguising by distortion, displacement, and condensation the repressed thoughts to preserve sleep.
In the clinical setting, Freud encouraged free association to the dream's manifest content, as recounted in the dream narrative, to facilitate interpretative work on its latent content – the repressed thoughts and fantasies – and also on the underlying mechanisms and structures operative in the dream-work. As Freud developed his theoretical work on dreams he went beyond his theory of dreams as wish-fulfillments to arrive at an emphasis on dreams as "nothing other than a particular form of thinking. ... It is the dream-work that creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming".
Psychosexual development
Main article: Psychosexual developmentFreud's theory of psychosexual development proposes that following on from the initial polymorphous perversity of infantile sexuality, the sexual "drives" pass through the distinct developmental phases of the oral, the anal, and the phallic. Though these phases then give way to a latency stage of reduced sexual interest and activity (from the age of five to puberty, approximately), they leave a "perverse" and bisexual residue which persists during the formation of adult genital sexuality. Freud argued that neurosis and perversion could be explained in terms of fixation or regression to these phases whereas adult character and cultural creativity could achieve a sublimation of their perverse residue.
After Freud's later development of the theory of the Oedipus complex this normative developmental trajectory becomes formulated in terms of the child's renunciation of incestuous desires under the fantasised threat of (or fantasised fact of, in the case of the girl) castration. The "dissolution" of the Oedipus complex is then achieved when the child's rivalrous identification with the parental figure is transformed into the pacifying identifications of the Ego ideal which assume both similarity and difference and acknowledge the separateness and autonomy of the other.
Freud hoped to prove that his model was universally valid and turned to ancient mythology and contemporary ethnography for comparative material arguing that totemism reflected a ritualized enactment of a tribal Oedipal conflict.
Id, ego, and super-ego
Main article: Id, ego and super-egoFreud proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, ego, and super-ego. Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated upon it in The Ego and the Id (1923), in which he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (i.e., conscious, unconscious and preconscious). The id is the unconscious portion of the psyche that operates on the "pleasure principle" and is the source of basic impulses and drives; it seeks immediate pleasure and gratification. Freud acknowledged that his use of the term Id (das Es, "the It") derives from the writings of Georg Groddeck.
The super-ego is the moral component of the psyche. The rational ego attempts to exact a balance between the impractical hedonism of the id and the equally impractical moralism of the super-ego; it is the part of the psyche that is usually reflected most directly in a person's actions. When overburdened or threatened by its tasks, it may employ defence mechanisms including denial, repression, undoing, rationalization, and displacement. This concept is usually represented by the "Iceberg Model". This model represents the roles the id, ego, and super-ego play in relation to conscious and unconscious thought.
Freud compared the relationship between the ego and the id to that between a charioteer and his horses: the horses provide the energy and drive, while the charioteer provides direction.
Life and death drives
Main articles: Libido, Death drive, and Repetition compulsionFreud believed that the human psyche is subject to two conflicting drives: the life drive or libido and the death drive. The life drive was also termed "Eros" and the death drive "Thanatos", although Freud did not use the latter term; "Thanatos" was introduced in this context by Paul Federn. Freud hypothesized that libido is a form of mental energy with which processes, structures, and object-representations are invested.
In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Freud inferred the existence of a death drive. Its premise was a regulatory principle that has been described as "the principle of psychic inertia", "the Nirvana principle", and "the conservatism of instinct". Its background was Freud's earlier Project for a Scientific Psychology, where he had defined the principle governing the mental apparatus as its tendency to divest itself of quantity or to reduce tension to zero. Freud had been obliged to abandon that definition, since it proved adequate only to the most rudimentary kinds of mental functioning, and replaced the idea that the apparatus tends toward a level of zero tension with the idea that it tends toward a minimum level of tension.
Freud in effect readopted the original definition in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, this time applying it to a different principle. He asserted that on certain occasions the mind acts as though it could eliminate tension, or in effect to reduce itself to a state of extinction; his key evidence for this was the existence of the compulsion to repeat. Examples of such repetition included the dream life of traumatic neurotics and children's play. In the phenomenon of repetition, Freud saw a psychic trend to work over earlier impressions, to master them and derive pleasure from them, a trend that was before the pleasure principle but not opposed to it. In addition to that trend, there was also a principle at work that was opposed to, and thus "beyond" the pleasure principle. If repetition is a necessary element in the binding of energy or adaptation, when carried to inordinate lengths it becomes a means of abandoning adaptations and reinstating earlier or less evolved psychic positions. By combining this idea with the hypothesis that all repetition is a form of discharge, Freud concluded that the compulsion to repeat is an effort to restore a state that is both historically primitive and marked by the total draining of energy: death. This has been described by some scholars as "metaphysical biology".
Melancholia
In his 1917 essay "Mourning and Melancholia", Freud distinguished mourning, painful but an inevitable part of life, and "melancholia", his term for pathological refusal of a mourner to "decathect" from the lost one. Freud claimed that, in normal mourning, the ego was responsible for narcissistically detaching the libido from the lost one as a means of self-preservation, but that in "melancholia", prior ambivalence towards the lost one prevents this from occurring. Suicide, Freud hypothesized, could result in extreme cases, when unconscious feelings of conflict became directed against the mourner's own ego.
Femininity and female sexuality
Freud's account of femininity is grounded in his theory of psychic development as it traces the uneven transition from the earliest stages of infantile and childhood sexuality, characterised by polymorphous perversity and a bisexual disposition, through to the fantasy scenarios and rivalrous identifications of the Oedipus complex and on to the greater or lesser extent these are modified in adult sexuality. There are different trajectories for the boy and the girl which arise as effects of the castration complex. Anatomical difference, the possession of a penis, induces castration anxiety for the boy whereas the girl experiences a sense of deprivation. In the boy's case the castration complex concludes the Oedipal phase whereas for the girl it precipitates it.
The constraint of the erotic feelings and fantasies of the girl and her turning away from the mother to the father is an uneven and precarious process entailing "waves of repression". The normal outcome is, according to Freud, the vagina becoming "the new leading zone" of sexual sensitivity, displacing the previously dominant clitoris, the phallic properties of which made it indistinguishable in the child's early sexual life from the penis. This leaves a legacy of penis envy and emotional ambivalence for the girl which was "intimately related to the essence of femininity" and leads to "the greater proneness of women to neurosis and especially hysteria." In his last paper on the topic Freud likewise concludes that "the development of femininity remains exposed to disturbance by the residual phenomena of the early masculine period... Some portion of what we men call the 'enigma of women' may perhaps be derived from this expression of bisexuality in women's lives."
Initiating what became the first debate within psychoanalysis on femininity, Karen Horney of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute set out to challenge Freud's account of femininity. Rejecting Freud's theories of the feminine castration complex and penis envy, Horney argued for a primary femininity and penis envy as a defensive formation rather than arising from the fact, or "injury", of biological asymmetry as Freud held. Horney had the influential support of Melanie Klein and Ernest Jones who coined the term "phallocentrism" in his critique of Freud's position.
In defending Freud against this critique, feminist scholar Jacqueline Rose has argued that it presupposes a more normative account of female sexual development than that given by Freud. She finds that Freud moved from a description of the little girl stuck with her 'inferiority' or 'injury' in the face of the anatomy of the little boy to an account in his later work which explicitly describes the process of becoming 'feminine' as an 'injury' or 'catastrophe' for the complexity of her earlier psychic and sexual life.
Throughout his deliberations on what he described as the "dark continent" of female sexuality and the "riddle" of femininity, Freud was careful to emphasise the "average validity" and provisional nature of his findings. He did, however, in response to his critics, maintain a steadfast objection "to all of you ... to the extent that you do not distinguish more clearly between what is psychic and what is biological..."
Religion
Main article: Sigmund Freud's views on religionFreud regarded the monotheistic God as an illusion based upon the infantile emotional need for a powerful, supernatural pater familias. He maintained that religion – once necessary to restrain man's violent nature in the early stages of civilization – in modern times, can be set aside in favor of reason and science. "Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices" (1907) notes the likeness between faith (religious belief) and neurotic obsession. Totem and Taboo (1913) proposes that society and religion begin with the patricide and eating of the powerful paternal figure, who then becomes a revered collective memory. In The Future of an Illusion (1927) Freud argues that the function of religious belief is psychological consolation. He argues that the belief in a supernatural protector serves as a buffer against man's "fear of nature", just as the belief in an afterlife serves as a buffer against man's fear of death. The core idea of the work is that religious belief can be explained through its function in society, not through its relation to the truth. In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), he considers the "oceanic feeling" of wholeness, limitlessness, and eternity (brought to his attention by his friend Romain Rolland), as a possible source for religious feelings. He notes that he has no experience of this feeling himself, and suggests that it is a regression into the state of consciousness that precedes the ego's differentiation of itself from the world of objects and others. Moses and Monotheism (1937) proposes that Moses was the tribal pater familias, killed by the Jews, who psychologically coped with the patricide with a reaction formation conducive to their establishing monotheistic Judaism; analogously, he described the Roman Catholic rite of Holy Communion as cultural evidence of the killing and devouring of the sacred father.
Moreover, he perceived religion, with its suppression of violence, as mediator of the societal and personal, the public and the private, conflicts between Eros and Thanatos, the forces of life and death. Later works indicate Freud's pessimism about the future of civilization, which he noted in the 1931 edition of Civilization and its Discontents. Humphrey Skelton described Freud's worldview as one of "stoical humanism". The Humanist Heritage project summed his contributions to understanding of religion by saying:
Freud's ideas on the origins of the religious impulse, and the comforting illusion religion provided, were a significant contribution to a tradition of scientific humanist thought, in which research and reason were the means of uncovering truth. They also served to highlight the powerful resonance of childhood influences on adult lives, not least in the realm of religion.
In a footnote of his 1909 Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy, Freud theorized that the universal fear of castration was provoked in the uncircumcised when they perceived circumcision and that this was "the deepest unconscious root of antisemitism".
Legacy
Freud's legacy, though a highly contested area of controversy, has been assessed as "one of the strongest influences on twentieth-century thought, its impact comparable only to that of Darwinism and Marxism," with its range of influence permeating "all the fields of culture ... so far as to change our way of life and concept of man."
Psychotherapy
Though not the first methodology in the practice of individual verbal psychotherapy, Freud's psychoanalytic system came to dominate the field from early in the twentieth century, forming the basis for many later variants. While these systems have adopted different theories and techniques, all have followed Freud by attempting to achieve psychic and behavioral change through having patients talk about their difficulties. Psychoanalysis is not as influential as it once was in Europe and the United States, though in some parts of the world, notably Latin America, its influence in the later 20th century expanded substantially. Psychoanalysis also remains influential within many contemporary schools of psychotherapy and has led to innovative therapeutic work in schools and with families and groups. There is a substantial body of research which demonstrates the efficacy of the clinical methods of psychoanalysis and of related psychodynamic therapies in treating a wide range of psychological disorders.
The neo-Freudians, a group including Alfred Adler, Otto Rank, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm, rejected Freud's theory of instinctual drive, emphasized interpersonal relations and self-assertiveness, and made modifications to therapeutic practice that reflected these theoretical shifts. The neo-Freudian analysis places more emphasis on the patient's relationship with the analyst and less on the exploration of the unconscious.
Jacques Lacan approached psychoanalysis through linguistics and literature. Lacan believed that most of Freud's essential work had been done before 1905, and that ego psychology and object relations theory were based upon misreadings of Freud's work. Lacan saw desire as more important than need.
Wilhelm Reich developed some of Freud's ideas, such as Actualneurosis. Freud applied that idea both to infants and to adults. In the former case, seductions were sought as the causes of later neuroses and in the latter incomplete sexual release. Unlike Freud, Reich retained the idea that actual experience, especially sexual experience, was of key significance. By the 1920s, Reich had "taken Freud's original ideas about sexual release to the point of specifying the orgasm as the criteria of healthy function." Reich was also "developing his ideas about character into a form that would later take shape, first as "muscular armour", and eventually as a transducer of universal biological energy, the "orgone"."
Fritz Perls, who helped to develop Gestalt therapy, was influenced by Reich, Jung, and Freud. The key idea of gestalt therapy is that Freud overlooked the structure of awareness, "an active process that moves toward the construction of organized meaningful wholes ... between an organism and its environment." These wholes, called gestalts, are "patterns involving all the layers of organismic function – thought, feeling, and activity", to which improper formation, in Perls' view, gives rise to neurosis and anxieties. Gestalt therapy attempts to cure patients by placing them in contact with "immediate organismic needs." Perls rejected the verbal approach of classical psychoanalysis; favoring a workshop style approach.
Arthur Janov's primal therapy, which has been influential post-Freudian psychotherapy, resembles psychoanalytic therapy in its emphasis on early childhood experience but has also differences with it. While Janov's theory is akin to Freud's early idea of Actualneurosis, he does not have a dynamic psychology but a nature psychology like that of Reich or Perls, in which need is primary while wish is derivative and dispensable when need is met. Despite its surface similarity to Freud's ideas, Janov's theory lacks a strictly psychological account of the unconscious and belief in infantile sexuality. While for Freud there was a hierarchy of dangerous situations, for Janov the key event in the child's life is an awareness that the parents do not love it. Janov writes in The Primal Scream (1970) that primal therapy has in some ways returned to Freud's early ideas and techniques.
Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, co-authors of The Courage to Heal (1988), are described as "champions of survivorship" by Frederick Crews, who considers Freud the key influence upon them, although in his view they are indebted not to classic psychoanalysis but to "the pre-psychoanalytic Freud ... who supposedly took pity on his hysterical patients, found that they were all harboring memories of early abuse ... and cured them by unknotting their repression." Crews sees Freud as having anticipated the recovered memory movement by emphasizing "mechanical cause-and-effect relations between symptomatology and the premature stimulation of one body zone or another", and with pioneering its "technique of thematically matching a patient's symptom with a sexually symmetrical 'memory.'" Crews believes that Freud's confidence in accurate recall of early memories anticipates the theories of recovered memory therapists such as Lenore Terr, which in his view have led to people being wrongfully imprisoned.
Science
Research projects designed to test Freud's theories empirically have led to a vast literature on the topic. American psychologists began to attempt to study repression in the experimental laboratory around 1930. In 1934, when the psychologist Saul Rosenzweig sent Freud reprints of his attempts to study repression, Freud responded with a dismissive letter stating that "the wealth of reliable observations" on which psychoanalytic assertions were based made them "independent of experimental verification." Seymour Fisher and Roger P. Greenberg concluded in 1977 that some of Freud's concepts were supported by empirical evidence. Their analysis of research literature supported Freud's concepts of oral and anal personality constellations, his account of the role of Oedipal factors in certain aspects of male personality functioning, his formulations about the relatively greater concern about the loss of love in women's as compared to men's personality economy, and his views about the instigating effects of homosexual anxieties on the formation of paranoid delusions. They also found limited and equivocal support for Freud's theories about the development of homosexuality. They found that several of Freud's other theories, including his portrayal of dreams as primarily containers of secret, unconscious wishes, as well as some of his views about the psychodynamics of women, were either not supported or contradicted by research. Reviewing the issues again in 1996, they concluded that much experimental data relevant to Freud's work exists, and supports some of his major ideas and theories.
Other viewpoints include those of psychologist and science historian Malcolm Macmillan, who concludes in Freud Evaluated (1991) that "Freud's method is not capable of yielding objective data about mental processes". Morris Eagle states that it has been "demonstrated quite conclusively that because of the epistemologically contaminated status of clinical data derived from the clinical situation, such data have questionable probative value in the testing of psychoanalytic hypotheses". Richard Webster, in Why Freud Was Wrong (1995), described psychoanalysis as "perhaps the most complex and successful" pseudoscience in history. Crews believes that psychoanalysis has no scientific or therapeutic merit. University of Chicago research associate Kurt Jacobsen takes these critics to task for their own supposedly dogmatic and historically naive views both about psychoanalysis and the nature of science.
I. Bernard Cohen regards Freud's Interpretation of Dreams as a revolutionary work of science, the last such work to be published in book form. In contrast Allan Hobson believes that Freud, by rhetorically discrediting 19th century investigators of dreams such as Alfred Maury and the Marquis de Hervey de Saint-Denis at a time when study of the physiology of the brain was only beginning, interrupted the development of scientific dream theory for half a century. The dream researcher G. William Domhoff has disputed claims of Freudian dream theory being validated.
Karl Popper claimed that Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories were presented in unfalsifiable form, meaning that no experiment could ever disprove them. The philosopher Adolf Grünbaum argues in The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984) that Popper was mistaken and that many of Freud's theories are empirically testable, a position with which others such as Eysenck agree. The philosopher Roger Scruton, writing in Sexual Desire (1986), also rejected Popper's arguments, pointing to the theory of repression as an example of a Freudian theory that does have testable consequences. Scruton nevertheless concluded that psychoanalysis is not genuinely scientific, because it involves an unacceptable dependence on metaphor. The philosopher Donald Levy agrees with Grünbaum that Freud's theories are falsifiable but disputes Grünbaum's contention that therapeutic success is only the empirical basis on which they stand or fall, arguing that a much wider range of empirical evidence can be adduced via clinical case material.
In a study of psychoanalysis in the United States, Nathan Hale reported on the "decline of psychoanalysis in psychiatry" during 1965–1985. The continuation of this trend was noted by Alan Stone: "As academic psychology becomes more 'scientific' and psychiatry more biological, psychoanalysis is being brushed aside." Paul Stepansky, while noting that psychoanalysis remains influential in the humanities, records the "vanishingly small number of psychiatric residents who choose to pursue psychoanalytic training" and the "nonanalytic backgrounds of psychiatric chairpersons at major universities" among the evidence he cites for his conclusion that "Such historical trends attest to the marginalisation of psychoanalysis within American psychiatry." Nonetheless, Freud was ranked as the third most cited psychologist of the 20th century. It is also claimed that in moving beyond the "orthodoxy of the not so distant past ... new ideas and new research has led to an intense reawakening of interest in psychoanalysis from neighbouring disciplines ranging from the humanities to neuroscience and including the non-analytic therapies".
Research in the emerging field of neuropsychoanalysis, founded by neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms, has proved controversial with some psychoanalysts criticising the very concept itself. Solms and his colleagues have argued for neuro-scientific findings being "broadly consistent" with Freudian theories pointing out brain structures relating to Freudian concepts such as libido, drives, the unconscious, and repression. Neuroscientists who have endorsed Freud's work include David Eagleman who believes that Freud "transformed psychiatry" by providing "the first exploration of the way in which hidden states of the brain participate in driving thought and behavior" and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel who argues that "psychoanalysis still represents the most coherent and intellectually satisfying view of the mind."
Philosophy
See also: Freudo-MarxismPsychoanalysis has been interpreted as both radical and conservative. By the 1940s, it had come to be seen as conservative by the European and American intellectual community. Critics outside the psychoanalytic movement, whether on the political left or right, saw Freud as a conservative. Fromm had argued that several aspects of psychoanalytic theory served the interests of political reaction in his The Fear of Freedom (1942), an assessment confirmed by sympathetic writers on the right. In Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959), Philip Rieff portrayed Freud as a man who urged men to make the best of an inevitably unhappy fate, and admirable for that reason. In the 1950s, Herbert Marcuse challenged the then prevailing interpretation of Freud as a conservative in Eros and Civilization (1955), as did Lionel Trilling in Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture and Norman O. Brown in Life Against Death (1959). Eros and Civilization helped make the idea that Freud and Karl Marx were addressing similar questions from different perspectives credible to the left. Marcuse criticized neo-Freudian revisionism for discarding seemingly pessimistic theories such as the death instinct, arguing that they could be turned in a utopian direction. Freud's theories also influenced the Frankfurt School and critical theory as a whole.
Freud has been compared to Marx by Reich, who saw Freud's importance for psychiatry as parallel to that of Marx for economics, and by Paul Robinson, who sees Freud as a revolutionary whose contributions to twentieth-century thought are comparable in importance to Marx's contributions to the nineteenth-century thought. Fromm calls Freud, Marx, and Einstein the "architects of the modern age", but rejects the idea that Marx and Freud were equally significant, arguing that Marx was both far more historically important and a finer thinker. Fromm nevertheless credits Freud with permanently changing the way human nature is understood. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari write in Anti-Oedipus (1972) that psychoanalysis resembles the Russian Revolution in that it became corrupted almost from the beginning. They believe this began with Freud's development of the theory of the Oedipus complex, which they see as idealist.
Jean-Paul Sartre critiques Freud's theory of the unconscious in Being and Nothingness (1943), claiming that consciousness is essentially self-conscious. Maurice Merleau-Ponty considers Freud to be one of the anticipators of phenomenology, while Theodor W. Adorno considers Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, to be Freud's philosophical opposite, writing that Husserl's polemic against psychologism could have been directed against psychoanalysis. Paul Ricœur sees Freud as one of the three "masters of suspicion", alongside Marx and Nietzsche, for their unmasking 'the lies and illusions of consciousness'. Ricœur and Jürgen Habermas have helped create a "hermeneutic version of Freud", one which "claimed him as the most significant progenitor of the shift from an objectifying, empiricist understanding of the human realm to one stressing subjectivity and interpretation." Louis Althusser drew on Freud's concept of overdetermination for his reinterpretation of Marx's Capital. Jean-François Lyotard developed a theory of the unconscious that reverses Freud's account of the dream-work.
Several scholars see Freud as parallel to Plato, writing that they hold nearly the same theory of dreams and have similar theories of the tripartite structure of the human soul or personality, even if the hierarchy between the parts of the soul is almost reversed. Ernest Gellner argues that Freud's theories are an inversion of Plato's. Whereas Plato saw a hierarchy inherent in the nature of reality and relied upon it to validate norms, Freud was a naturalist who could not follow such an approach. Both men's theories drew a parallel between the structure of the human mind and that of society, but while Plato wanted to strengthen the super-ego, which Gellner compared to the aristocracy, Freud wanted to strengthen the ego, which corresponded to the middle class. Paul Vitz compares Freudian psychoanalysis to Thomism, noting St. Thomas's belief in the existence of an "unconscious consciousness" and his "frequent use of the word and concept 'libido' – sometimes in a more specific sense than Freud, but always in a manner in agreement with the Freudian use." Vitz suggests that Freud may have been unaware his theory of the unconscious was reminiscent of Aquinas.
Literature and literary criticism
The poem "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" was published by W. H. Auden in his 1940 collection Another Time. Auden describes Freud as having created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives."
Literary critic Harold Bloom has been influenced by Freud. Camille Paglia has also been influenced by Freud, whom she calls "Nietzsche's heir" and one of the greatest sexual psychologists in literature, but has rejected the scientific status of his work in her Sexual Personae (1990), writing, "Freud has no rivals among his successors because they think he wrote science, when in fact he wrote art."
Feminism
The decline in Freud's reputation has been attributed partly to the revival of feminism. Simone de Beauvoir criticizes psychoanalysis from an existentialist standpoint in The Second Sex (1949), arguing that Freud saw an "original superiority" in the male that is in reality socially induced. Betty Friedan criticizes Freud and what she considered his Victorian view of women in The Feminine Mystique (1963). Freud's concept of penis envy was attacked by Kate Millett, who in Sexual Politics (1970) accused him of confusion and oversights. In 1968, Anne Koedt wrote in her essay The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm:
It was Freud's feelings about women's secondary and inferior relationship to men that formed the basis for his theories on female sexuality. Once having laid down the law about the nature of our sexuality, Freud not so strangely discovered a tremendous problem of frigidity in women. His recommended cure for a frigid woman was psychiatric care. She was suffering from failure to mentally adjust to her 'natural' role as a woman.
Naomi Weisstein writes that Freud and his followers erroneously thought his "years of intensive clinical experience" added up to scientific rigor.
Freud is also criticized by Shulamith Firestone and Eva Figes. In The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Firestone argues that Freud was a "poet" who produced metaphors rather than literal truths; in her view, Freud, like feminists, recognized that sexuality was the crucial problem of modern life, but ignored the social context. Firestone interprets Freud's "metaphors" in terms of the facts of power within the family. Figes tries in Patriarchal Attitudes (1970) to place Freud within a "history of ideas". Juliet Mitchell defends Freud against his feminist critics in Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974), accusing them of misreading him and misunderstanding the implications of psychoanalytic theory for feminism. Mitchell helped introduce English-speaking feminists to Lacan. Mitchell is criticized by Jane Gallop in The Daughter's Seduction (1982). Gallop compliments Mitchell for her criticism of feminist discussions of Freud but finds her treatment of Lacanian theory lacking.
Some French feminists, among them Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray, have been influenced by Freud as interpreted by Lacan.
Psychologist Carol Gilligan writes that "The penchant of developmental theorists to project a masculine image, and one that appears frightening to women, goes back at least to Freud." She sees Freud's criticism of women's sense of justice reappearing in the work of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. Gilligan notes that Nancy Chodorow, in contrast to Freud, attributes sexual difference not to anatomy but to the fact that male and female children have different early social environments. Chodorow, writing against the masculine bias of psychoanalysis, "replaces Freud's negative and derivative description of female psychology with a positive and direct account of her own."
In her analysis of Freud's work on religion in relation to gender, Judith Van Herik noted that Freud paired femininity and the concept of weakness with Christianity and wish fulfillment while associating masculinity and renunciation with Judaism.
Toril Moi has developed a feminist perspective on psychoanalysis proposing that it is a discourse that "attempts to understand the psychic consequences of three universal traumas: the fact that there are others, the fact of sexual difference, and the fact of death". She replaces Freud's term of castration with Stanley Cavell's concept of "victimization" which is a more universal term that applies equally to both sexes. Moi regards this concept of human finitude as a suitable replacement for both castration and sexual difference as the traumatic "discovery of our separate, sexed, mortal existence" and how both men and women come to terms with it.
In popular culture
Sigmund Freud is the subject of three major films or TV series, the first of which was 1962's Freud: The Secret Passion starring Montgomery Clift as Freud, directed by John Huston from a revision of a script by an uncredited Jean-Paul Sartre. The film is focused on Freud's early life from 1885 to 1890 and combines multiple case studies of Freud into single ones, and multiple friends of his into single characters.
In 1984, the BBC produced the six-episode mini-series Freud: the Life of a Dream starring David Suchet.
The stage play The Talking Cure and subsequent film A Dangerous Method focus on the conflict between Freud and Carl Jung. Both are written by Christopher Hampton and are partly based on the nonfiction book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr. Viggo Mortensen plays Freud and Michael Fassbender plays Jung.
More fanciful employments of Freud in fiction are The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer, which centers on an encounter between Freud and the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, with a main part of the plot seeing Freud helping Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction. The 2020 Austrian-German series Freud involves a young Freud solving murder mysteries. The series has been criticized for having Freud be helped by a medium with real paranormal powers, when in reality Freud was quite skeptical of the paranormal. Freud also helps to solve a murder case in the 2006 novel The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld.
Mark St. Germain's 2009 play Freud's Last Session imagines a meeting between C. S. Lewis, aged 40, and Freud, aged 83, at Freud's house in Hampstead, London, in 1939, as the Second World War is about to break out. The play is focused on the two men discussing religion and whether it should be seen as a sign of neurosis. The play was inspired by the 2003 nonfiction book The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand Nicholi which also inspired a four-part PBS series. The play was made into the 2023 film Freud's Last Session, directed by Matthew Brown and with Anthony Hopkins as Freud.
Freud is employed to more comic effect in the 1983 film Lovesick in which Alec Guinness plays Freud's ghost who gives love advice to a modern psychiatrist played by Dudley Moore. Freud is also presented in a comedic light in the 1989 film, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Portrayed by Rod Loomis, Freud is one of several historical figures recruited by the film's time-traveling lead characters to assist them in passing their high school history class presentation.
Works
Main article: Sigmund Freud bibliographyBooks
- 1891 On Aphasia
- 1895 Studies on Hysteria (co-authored with Josef Breuer)
- 1899 The Interpretation of Dreams
- 1901 On Dreams (abridged version of The Interpretation of Dreams)
- 1904 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- 1905 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
- 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
- 1907 Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva
- 1910 Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
- 1910 Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood
- 1913 Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
- 1915–17 Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
- 1920 Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- 1921 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- 1923 The Ego and the Id
- 1926 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
- 1926 The Question of Lay Analysis
- 1927 The Future of an Illusion
- 1930 Civilization and Its Discontents
- 1933 New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
- 1939 Moses and Monotheism
- 1940 An Outline of Psychoanalysis
- 1967 Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study, with William C. Bullit
Case histories
- 1905 Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (the Dora case history)
- 1909 Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (the Little Hans case history)
- 1909 Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man case history)
- 1911 Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (the Schreber case)
- 1918 From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (the Wolfman case history)
- 1920 The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman
- 1923 A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis (the Haizmann case)
Papers on sexuality
- 1906 My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses
- 1908 "Civilized" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness
- 1910 A Special Type of Choice of Object made by Men
- 1912 Types of Onset of Neurosis
- 1912 The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life
- 1913 The Disposition to Obsessional Neurosis
- 1915 A Case of Paranoia Running Counter to the Psycho-Analytic Theory of the Disease
- 1919 A Child is Being Beaten: A Contribution to the Origin of Sexual Perversions
- 1922 Medusa's Head
- 1922 Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality
- 1923 Infantile Genital Organisation
- 1924 The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex
- 1925 Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes
- 1927 Fetishism
- 1931 Female Sexuality
- 1933 Femininity
- 1938 The Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence
Autobiographical papers
- 1899 An Autobiographical Note
- 1914 On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
- 1925 An Autobiographical Study (1935 Revised edition with Postscript).
The Standard Edition
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey, Alan Tyson, and Angela Richards. 24 volumes, London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953–1974.
- Vol. I Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886–1899).
- Vol. II Studies in Hysteria (1893–1895). By Josef Breuer and S. Freud.
- Vol. III Early Psycho-Analytic Publications (1893–1899)
- Vol. IV The Interpretation of Dreams (I) (1900)
- Vol. V The Interpretation of Dreams (II) and On Dreams (1900–1901)
- Vol. VI The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
- Vol. VII A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works (1901–1905)
- Vol. VIII Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905)
- Vol. IX Jensen's 'Gradiva,' and Other Works (1906–1909)
- Vol. X The Cases of 'Little Hans' and the Rat Man' (1909)
- Vol. XI Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Leonardo and Other Works (1910)
- Vol. XII The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works (1911–1913)
- Vol. XIII Totem and Taboo and Other Works (1913–1914)
- Vol. XIV On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Meta-psychology and Other Works (1914–1916)
- Vol. XV Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Parts I and II) (1915–1916)
- Vol. XVI Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Part III) (1916–1917)
- Vol. XVII An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works (1917–1919)
- Vol. XVIII Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and Other Works (1920–1922)
- Vol. XIX The Ego and the Id and Other Works (1923–1925)
- Vol. XX An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925–1926)
- Vol. XXI The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents and Other Works (1927–1931)
- Vol. XXII New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1932–1936)
- Vol. XXIII Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1937–1939)
- Vol. XXIV Indexes and Bibliographies (Compiled by Angela Richards,1974)
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
A revised and newly annotated edition of the Standard Edition texts was published in 2024 under the editorship of Mark Solms.
Correspondence
- Selected Letters of Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, Ansh Mehta and Ankit Patel (eds.), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN 978-1-5151-3703-0
- Correspondence: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Cambridge: Polity 2014. ISBN 978-0-7456-4149-2
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis (eds. E.J. Lieberman and Robert Kramer). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904, (editor and translator Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson), 1985, ISBN 978-0-674-15420-9
- The Sigmund Freud Carl Gustav Jung Letters, Princeton University Press; Abr edition, 1994, ISBN 978-0-691-03643-4
- The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, 1907–1925, Karnac Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1-85575-051-7
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, 1921–1939: Psychoanalysis and Politics in the Interwar Years. Edited By Gertie Bögels. London: Routledge 2022.
- The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908–1939., Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-674-15424-7
- The Sigmund Freud – Ludwig Binswanger Correspondence 1908–1939, London: Other Press 2003, ISBN 1-892746-32-8
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Vol 1, 1908–1914, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-674-17418-4
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Vol 2, 1914–1919, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-674-17419-1
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Vol 3, 1920–1933, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-674-00297-5
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871–1881, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-52828-4
- Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister. Trans. Eric Mosbacher. Heinrich Meng and Ernst L. Freud. eds London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1963.
- Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome; Letters, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1972, ISBN 978-0-15-133490-2
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Arnold Zweig, New York University Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8147-2585-6
- Why War? Open Letters Between Einstein and Freud. London: New Commonwealth, 1934.
- Letters of Sigmund Freud, selected and edited by Ernst L. Freud, New York: Basic Books, 1960, ISBN 978-0-486-27105-7
See also
- The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
- Sigmund Freud Archives
- Freud Museum (London)
- Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna)
- A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière
- Afterwardsness
- Freudian slip
- Freudo-Marxism
- School of Brentano
- Hedgehog's dilemma
- Narcissism of small differences
- Hidden personality
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Psychoanalytic literary criticism
- Psychodynamics
- Saul Rosenzweig
- Signorelli parapraxis
- The Freudian Coverup
- The Passions of the Mind
- Uncanny
Notes
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- ^ Ford & Urban 1965, p. 109
- Pick, Daniel (2015). Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition, p. 3.
- Noel Sheehy; Alexandra Forsythe (2013). "Sigmund Freud". Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-70493-4.
- Kandel, Eric R. (2012). The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, pp. 45–46. New York: Random House.
- Gay 2006, pp. 136–37.
- Jones, Ernest (1949). What is Psychoanalysis?, p. 47. London: Allen & Unwin.
- ^ Mannoni, Octave (2015) . Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious, pp. 49–51, 146–47, 152–54. London: Verso.
- For its efficacy and the influence of psychoanalysis on psychiatry and psychotherapy, see The Challenge to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Chapter 9, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: A Changing Relationship Archived 6 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine by Robert Michels, 1999 and Tom Burns Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry London: Allen Lane 2013 pp. 96–97.
- For the influence on psychology, see The Psychologist, December 2000 Archived 31 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- For the influence of psychoanalysis in the humanities, see J. Forrester The Seductions of Psychoanalysis Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 2–3.
- For the debate on efficacy, see Fisher, S. and Greenberg, R.P., Freud Scientifically Reappraised: Testing the Theories and Therapy, New York: John Wiley, 1996, pp. 193–217
- For the debate on the scientific status of psychoanalysis see Stevens, Richard (1985). Freud and Psychoanalysis. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. pp. 91–116. ISBN 978-0-335-10180-1., Gay (2006) p. 745, and Solms, Mark (2018). "The scientific standing of psychoanalysis". BJPsych International. 15 (1): 5–8. doi:10.1192/bji.2017.4. ISSN 2056-4740. PMC 6020924. PMID 29953128.
- For the debate on psychoanalysis and feminism, see Appignanesi, Lisa & Forrester, John. Freud's Women. London: Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 455–74.
- "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"
- "Digitized Birth Records of Freiberg (Zemský archiv v Opavě)". digi.archives.cz. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- "Sigmund Freud | Biography, Theories, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. 2 May 2023.
- Gresser 1994, p. 225.
- Emanuel Rice (1990). Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home. SUNY Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7914-0453-9.
- Gay 2006, pp. 4–8; Clark 1980, p. 4.
- For Jakob's Torah study, see Meissner 1993, p. 233.
- For the date of the marriage, see Rice 1990, p. 55.
- Deborah P. Margolis, M.A. (1989). "Margolis 1989". Mod. Psychoanal: 37–56. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- Jones, Ernest (1964) Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. Edited and abridged by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books p. 37.
- Hothersall 2004, p. 276.
- Hothersall 1995
- See "past studies of eels" and references therein.
- Costandi, Mo (10 March 2014). "Freud was a pioneering neuroscientist". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
In this period he published three papers:- Freud, Sigmund (1877). Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri) [On the Origin of the Posterior Nerve Roots in the Spinal Cord of Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)] (in German). na.
- Freud, Sigmund (1878). Über Spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon [On the Spinal Ganglia and Spinal Cord of Petromyzon] (in German).
- Freud, Sigmund (April 1884). "A New Histological Method for the Study of Nerve-Tracts in the Brain and Spinal Cord". Brain. 7 (1): 86–88. doi:10.1093/brain/7.1.86.
- Gay 2006 p. 36.
- Sulloway 1992 , p. 22.
- Wallesch, Claus (2004). "History of Aphasia Freud as an aphasiologist". Aphasiology. 18 (April): 389–399. doi:10.1080/02687030344000599. S2CID 144976195.
- Gay 2006, pp. 42–47.
- Jones, Ernest. Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, Vol. 1. London: Hogarth Press, 1953, p. 183, see also Vol. 2 pp. 19–20.
- Roudinesco, Elizabeth (2016). Freud: In His Time and Ours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 48–49.
- Sigmund Freud and the B'Nai B'Rith. doi:10.1177/000306517902700209
- Elisabetta Cicciola (Historical Archive of the Grand Orient of Italy (2019). "Freud e l' ordine del B'nai B'rith: un' appartenenza lunga quarant'anni". Physis-Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza. Nuova serie (in Italian). LIV (Fasc.1–2). Leo Olschki.
- "Saving Sigmund Freud | Interview with Former Newsweek Editor Andrew Nagorski". 10 November 2022.
- "The Starry Sky & the Still Small Voice: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)". Jewish Virtual Library.
- Peter J. Swales, "Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Conquest of Rome: New Light on the Origins of Psychoanalysis", The New American Review, Spring/Summer 1982, pp. 1–23, which makes a case that Freud impregnated Minna and arranged an abortion for her.
- see Gay 2006, pp. 76, 752–53 for a sceptical rejoinder to Swales.
- for the discovery of the hotel log see Blumenthal, Ralph (24 December 2006). "Hotel log hints at desire that Freud didn't repress – Europe – International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- see also 'Minna Bernays as "Mrs. Freud": What Sort of Relationship Did Sigmund Freud Have with His Sister-in-Law?' by Franz Maciejewski and Jeremy Gaines, American Imago, Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 5–21.
- Eiland, Murray (2014). "Cigar Box Heraldry". The Armiger's News. 36 (1): 1–4 – via academia.edu.
- Gay 2006, pp. 77, 169.
- Freud and Bonaparte 2009, pp. 238–39.
- ^ Vitz 1988, pp. 53–54.
- Sulloway 1992 , pp. 66–67, 116.
- Darian Leader, Freud's Footnotes, London, Faber, 2000, pp. 34–45.
- Pigman, G.W. (1995). "Freud and the history of empathy". The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 76 (Pt 2): 237–56. PMID 7628894.
- Young, C.; Brook, A. (1994). "Schopenhauer and Freud". The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 75 ( Pt 1): 101–118. PMID 8005756.
A close study of Schopenhauer's central work, 'The World as Will and Representation', reveals that certain of Freud's most characteristic doctrines were first articulated by Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's concept of the will contains the foundations of what in Freud become the concepts of the unconscious and the id. Schopenhauer's writings on madness anticipate Freud's theory of repression and his first theory of the aetiology of neurosis. Schopenhauer's work contains aspects of what becomes the theory of free association. And most importantly, Schopenhauer articulates major parts of the Freudian theory of sexuality. These correspondences raise a question about Freud's denial that he even read Schopenhauer until late in life.
- Paul Roazen, in Dufresne, Todd (ed). Returns of the French Freud: Freud, Lacan, and Beyond. New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997, pp. 13–15.
- Rudnytsky, Peter L. Freud and Oedipus. Columbia University Press (1987), p. 198. ISBN 978-0231063531
- Gay 2006, p. 45.
- Gay 1988, p. 45
- Holt 1989, p. 242.
- Bloom 1994, p. 346.
- Robert, Marthe (1976) From Oedipus to Moses: Freud's Jewish Identity New York: Anchor, pp. 3–6.
- Frosh, Stephen (2006) "Psychoanalysis and Judaism" in Black, David M. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 205–06.
- Luis A. Cordón (8 May 2012). Freud's World: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times. ABC-CLIO. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-0-313-08441-6.
- Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff (2012) . The Assault on Truth. Untreed Reads. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-61187-280-4.
- Kris, Ernst, Introduction to Sigmund Freud The Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes 1887–1902. Eds. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kris, E. London: Imago 1954.
- Reeder, Jurgen (2002). Reflecting Psychoanalysis. Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience. London: Karnac Books. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78049-710-5.
- Mannoni, Octave, Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious, London: Verso 2015, pp. 40–41.
- Sulloway 1992 , pp. 142ff.
- ^ Masson, Jeffrey M. (1984) The Assault on Truth. Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
- Bonomi, Carlos (2015) The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume I: Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein. London: Routledge, p. 80.
- Gay 2006, pp. 84–87, 154–56.
- Schur, Max. "Some Additional 'Day Residues' of the Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis." In Psychoanalysis, A General Psychology, ed. R.M. Loewenstein et al. New York: International Universities Press, 1966, pp. 45–95.
- Gay 2006, pp. 154–56.
- Freud had a small lithographic version of the painting, created by Eugène Pirodon (1824–1908), framed and hung on the wall of his Vienna rooms from 1886 to 1938. Once Freud reached England, it was immediately placed directly over the analytical couch in his London rooms.
- Joseph Aguayo (1986). "Joseph Aguayo Charcot and Freud: Some Implications of Late 19th-century French Psychiatry and Politics for the Origins of Psychoanalysis (1986). Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought". Psychoanal. Contemp. Thought: 223–60. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- Gay 2006, pp. 64–71.
- "jewishvirtuallibrary Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- Freud 1896c, pp. 203, 211, 219; Eissler 2005, p. 96.
- J. Forrester The Seductions of Psychoanalysis Cambridge University Press 1990, pp. 75–76.
- Gay 2006, pp. 88–96.
- Mannoni, Octave, Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious, London: Verso 2015, pp. 55–81.
- Mannoni, Octave, Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious, London: Verso 2015, p. 91.
- Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane (eds) In Dora's Case: Freud – Hysteria – Feminism, London: Virago 1985.
- Gay 2006, pp. 253–261
- John Forrester, Introduction; Sigmund Freud (2006). Interpreting Dreams. Penguin Books Limited. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-14-191553-1.
Affiliated Professor seems to me to be the best translation of professor extraordinarius, which position has the rank of Full Professor, but without payment by the University.
- Clark (1980), p. 424
- Phillips, Adam (2014) Becoming Freud Yale University Press. p. 139.
- ^ Rose, Louis (1998). The Freudian Calling: Early Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8143-2621-3.
- ^ Schwartz, Joseph (2003). Cassandra's daughter: a history of psychoanalysis. London: Karnac. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-85575-939-8.
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Further reading
- Brown, Norman O. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, Second Edition 1985.
- Blauner, Andrew, ed. On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2024. ISBN 9780691242439
- Cioffi, Frank. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Peru, IL: Open Court, 1999.
- Cole, J. Preston. The Problematic Self in Kierkegaard and Freud. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971.
- Crews, Frederick. The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute. New York: The New York Review of Books, 1995.
- Crews, Frederick. Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
- Dufresne, Todd. Killing Freud: Twentieth-Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis. New York: Continuum, 2003.
- Dufresne, Todd, ed. Against Freud: Critics Talk Back. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Ellenberger, Henri. Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Ellenberger, Henri. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
- Esterson, Allen. Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Open Court, 1993.
- Gellner, Ernest. The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. London: Fontana Press, 1993.
- Grünbaum, Adolf. The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
- Grünbaum, Adolf. Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis. Madison, Connecticut: International Universities Press, 1993.
- Hale, Nathan G., Jr. Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
- Hale, Nathan G., Jr. The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Hirschmüller, Albrecht. The Life and Work of Josef Breuer. New York University Press, 1989.
- Jung, Carl Gustav. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Volume 4: Freud and Psychoanalysis. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1961.
- Macmillan, Malcolm. Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997.
- Marcuse, Herbert. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.
- Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
- Nagorski, Andrew. Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London. London: Icon, 2022
- Ricœur, Paul. Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
- Rieff, Philip. Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1961.
- Roazen, Paul. Freud and His Followers. New York: Knopf, 1975, hardcover; trade paperback, Da Capo Press (22 March 1992), ISBN 978-0-306-80472-4.
- Roazen, Paul. Freud: Political and Social Thought. London: Hogarth Press, 1969.
- Roth, Michael, ed. Freud: Conflict and Culture. New York: Vintage, 1998.
- Schur, Max. Freud: Living and Dying. New York: International Universities Press, 1972.
- Stannard, David E. Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Webster, Richard. Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005.
- Wollheim, Richard. Freud. Fontana, 1971.
- Wollheim, Richard, and James Hopkins, eds. Philosophical Essays on Freud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Biographical works
- Breger, Louis (2001). Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. New York: Wiley.
- Clark, Ronald W. (1980). Freud: the Man and His Cause. London: Jonathan Cape.
- Crews, Frederick (2017). Freud: The Making of an Illusion. New York: Metropolitan Books.
- Ferris, Paul (1997). Dr Freud: A Life. London: Sinclair-Stevenson.
- Ffytche, Matt (2022). Sigmund Freud. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books.
- Flem, Lydia (2002). Freud the Man: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Other Press.
- Freud, Ernst L., Grubrich-Simitis, Ilse (eds.) (1976) Sigmund Freud: His Life in Pictures and Words New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Freud, Martin (1958) Sigmund Freud: Man and Father. New York: Vanguard Press.
- Gay, Peter (2006) . Freud: A Life for Our Time (2nd ed.). New York: W. W. Norton.
- Jones, Ernest (1953). Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Vol 1: The Young Freud 1856–1900. London: Hogarth Press.
- Jones, Ernest (1955). Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Vol 2: The Years of Maturity 1901–1919. London: Hogarth Press.
- Jones, Ernest (1957). Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Vol 3: The Final Years 1919–1939. London: Hogarth Press.
- Jones, Ernest (1961). Trilling, Lionel; Marcus, Stephen (eds.). Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (Abridged ed.). New York: Basic Books.
- Kahr, Brett (2021). Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and the Nazis. Freud Museum London Series. London: Karnac.
- Nagorski, Andrew (2022). Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London. London: Icon Books.
- Phillips, Adam (2014). Becoming Freud. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Puner, Helen Walker (1947). Freud: His Life and Mind. New York: Howell Soskin.
- Roudinesco, Élisabeth (2016). Freud: In His Time and Ours. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Schur, Max (1972). Freud: Living and Dying. London: Hogarth Press.
- Sheppard, Ruth (2012). Explorer of the Mind: The Illustrated Biography of Sigmund Freud. London: Andre Deutsch.
- Whitebook, Joel (2017). Freud: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Works by Sigmund Freud at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Sigmund Freud at the Internet Archive
- Works by Sigmund Freud at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Sigmund Freud at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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Preceded byPatrick Hastings | Cover of Time Magazine 27 October 1924 |
Succeeded byThomas Lipton |
Preceded byLeopold Ziegler | Goethe Prize 1930 |
Succeeded byRicarda Huch |
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