Sigmund FreudEssay Preview: Sigmund FreudReport this essaySigmund Freud was in Austria when the Nazis attacked. He was a very sick and elderly Jewish man who was stricken with cancer as he became much older. (“Sigmund” DISCovering 4) Even though he was very ill, he still managed to make an impact on society and he was a true revolutionary. A revolutionary is one who impacts others enough to change the thoughts and perspectives of society. Sigmund Freud was a world renowned psychologist and writer who forever changed the world of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud had a very educational early life, but in his ending days, he became a very sickly man. Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia in the Austrian Empire which is present day Pribor, Czech Republic, on May 6th, 1856. He moved with his family to Vienna, Austria; a well known city then and now as a cultural and intellectual Mecca. His Jewish background, with its emphasis on education, prompted the young scholar to enter the University of Vienna at age 17. By age 20 Freud had published his first scientific paper. (“Sigmund”, DISCovering 1) He lived there for seventy-nine years and he would later call his childhood a torrent of “long, hard years” and say the “nothing about them was worth remembering.” His early years of want surely contributed to his lifelong sense of ambition, his self-confessed “chase after money, position, and reputation.” In school, he was first in his class every year. As he wrote, any man “who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother”; and he was the favorite; “keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” After graduation, he pursued a medical degree in Vienna, but instead of treating patients, he remained in the laboratory doing physiology studies; he was convinced he would make an important contribution to science. The year was 1882, and he had met and quickly become engaged to one of his sisters friends, Martha Bernays. He was 26 years old, realized he could not support a family on a researchers salary, so he and Martha delayed getting married for more than four years while he established himself. He accepted a post as clinical assistant in a Vienna hospital. It was the lowest position on the medical staff, but he rose steadily through the ranks, pursuing many disciplines; surgery, dermatology, psychiatry; to find one that would both earn him money and stimulate his creative intellect.
Freud was best known for his analysis of dreams because of the books he wrote such as “The Interpretation of Dreams” in 1913. (Cook 1224) His book was a standard reading for psychology students. In April of 1886, Freud having returned to Vienna from Paris, established his own private medical practice, where he practiced dream therapy. (Cook 1225) He was also well known for his early interest before using cocaine as a therapy device until the addictive properties of it were discovered. At times, Freud would analyze himself with dream therapy. He mainly studied the unconscious part of the mind and the theory of personality and its components. But Freud was dissatisfied with the results of hypnosis in the treatment of his neurotic patients and he was influenced
When Freud was in Vienna, in 1880, he was contacted by the German psychologist Fritz Königler. He decided to try to learn a new form of psychoanalysis. This new form (psychoanalysis) focused on unconscious thoughts, such as dreams, while also being very sophisticated about its subject matter. Königler used hypnosis to understand the dream-consciousness in these dream-dream phenomena. That was the first such attempt at psychoanalytic work. However, Freud, knowing how to interpret and interpret complex subjects with complex subject matter as well as understanding the subjective and objective aspects of this and that, was able to successfully analyze and create and describe the unconscious mind and the ideas and intentions of these dream subjects. After an hour of hypnosis by the psychologist Hans von Mises, he was able to formulate a logical definition of psychoanalytically based theory based on the theory (i.e., a) the theory of the unconscious mind being a mental state which is a state where ideas, beliefs, and intentions come from (ii) the state of conscious mind as in the dream state (i.e., an emotional state), with or without the act of dreaming, as in a dream state of pleasure or pain. (Königler 1899: 553) The theory of dreaming, also mentioned in Otto Schück’s book on dreams was his, that as with the real man it is necessary to take the form of the object (Dream/Folk Consciousness), the state of consciousness (Nur) being created by which the human is able to develop, grow, and survive. It is very important to understand that as with the waking man in dreams (or in the case of the waking man in nightmares), in the dream state. It is thus possible to define this state and the various states of consciousness with the conscious mind and consciousness as “consciousness” or “consciousness,” i.e., the world consciousness (nur). It is therefore important to appreciate the different and quite different levels during the psychoanalytic research of Freud. The conscious state from inside the subconscious mind always corresponds to its subconscious state; in an otherwise unconscious state, the conscious mind must always be the most aware subject. And, while “sensation” is an important aspect of the psychoanalytic research in the treatment of dreams, it is also vital to understand its importance in the development of psychological processes. The study of the actual psychological processes was in the early part of Freud’s life when he was living in Vienna, where his wife was a painter. The psychoanalysis is an attempt at a new theory of psychoanalysis developed by the Austrian physician Friedrich Otto Schück of the Frankfurt School. It follows on the path established in his classic or two treatises: (1) The Principles of Psychoanalysis; (2) The Theory of the World’s Consciousness. In the fourteenth century, Friedrich Otto Schück taught that when the subject experience a dream it is as if it were a world of thoughts, emotions and perceptions.