Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud may be called the most influential thinker of his time. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory that people took as if it was the bible. His ideas were therapy for the relief of its ills, and a way to interpret culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted disqualifications of Freud's work, his theories remained well known and used after his death. One idea on how Freud did think up his somewhat taboo ideas for that time, is the stems of his childhood. Sigmund Freud was born into a Jewish family with a mother, father, and two half brothers. His father, Jakob, seemed to be a somewhat remote person, and definitely the authoritarian figure in the household. His mother was much more nurturing and emotional with Sigmund. In 1859 the Freud family was compelled for economic reasons to move to Leipzig and then a year later to Vienna, where the family

Although Freud didn"tmt like Vienna, partly because of the Anti-Semite feeling, psychoanalysis reflected in many ways the culture and political environment contained there. One example of this is Freud"tms theory on paternal authority"tms vulnerability could have been a reflection of the decline in power of the Habsburg empire suffered by his fathers generation. These experiments were a testament for Freud"tms mentality of attempting bold solutions to alleviate suffering. It is also thought that Freud"tms implication of sexuality to infants came from their relationship too. stayed until the Nazi annexation of Austria 78 years later. Then in 1885, Freud became the lecturer in neuropathology after finishing research on the brain"tms medulla. These experiments caused a deadly addiction in his friend, Ernst Fleischl von Marxow, and tainted his medical reputation for many years afterwards. Late in 1885 he left Vienna to continue his studies of neuropathology at the Salpetriere clinic in Paris. Considering the fact that they have still been studied for over a hundred years, I believe that they are. After graduating from the Sperl Gymnasium, Freud went on to the University of Vienna, where he worked with one of the leading physiologists of their times, Ernst von Brucke. They had six children, one of them, Anna Freud, a prominent psychoanalyst herself. When Freud returned to Vienna in 1886, he married Martha Bernays. There is no doubt that Freud"tms theories and hypothesis"tm have come from his own life experiences, but the more important question is whether or not the theories were right. Right around this time, Freud became very interested in using cocaine as a pharmaceutical drug.