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Title: Sigmund Freud


1
Sigmund Freud
  • Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen

2
Short Biography
  • May 6, 1856
  • Sigismund Shlomo Freud
  • Parents Jakob and Amalia Freud
  • Seven siblings
  • jewish

3
Short Biography
  • 1859  Father lost his job, family settles in
    Vienna
  • 1873 Successful graduation (Matura), medicine
    study at Vienna University
  • 1876  Freud joins Ernst Brückes physiological
    laboratory
  • 1881  Doctor of Medicine
  • 1884  Investigation of cocaine
  • 1890  Examination of the sexual lives of his
    patients - Psychoanalysis
  • 1897  theory of the Oedipus Complex
  • 1930 Freud received the Goethe Prize

4
Personal problems
  • psychosomatic disorders
  • exaggerated fears of dying
  • sexual feelings for his mother
  • Theory of the Oedipus Complex

5
His Death
  • In September 1939 his doctor and friend Max Schur
    assisted him in suicide.
  • three doses of morphine over many hours
  • Freud died on September 23, 1939.

6
Id, Ego and Superego
  • Mental activity exist at three levels
  • Id centre of our primitive instincts
  • Ego develops out of the Id as the child grows
  • Superego highest state at which we have arrived
    in our evolutionary "progress"
  • overseer, conscious

7
Freud and cocaine
  • early user and proponent of cocaine
  • He wrote several articles on the antidepressant
    qualities of the drug
  • Freud felt that cocaine would work as a panacea
    for many disorders
  • "On Coca
  • The Cocaine Incident
  • Jürgen von Scheidt speculated that most of
    Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct
    of his cocaine use.
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