Freud, Free Association and Psychoanalysis

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Freud, Free Associationand Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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Freuds Neuropathological Training

• At the Institute of physiology in Vienna, headed
  by Ernst Brücke (1876)
• In the neuro-anatomical laboratory of Theodor
  Meynert (1883-1886)

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Freuds 1877 publication on the function of the
large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of
primitive fish Petromyzon, assigned to him by
Professor Ernst Brücke.
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Freuds unpublished manuscript for a scientific
psychology of 1895
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Berggasse 19, Vienna (May 1938)
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Joseph Breuer (1842-1925)
STUDIES ON HYSTERIA 1895 Breuer and Freud
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Anna O./ Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)
TALKING CURE or CHIMNEY SWEEPING
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Cathartic Method or Abreaction

• An original response to a traumatic event is
  suppressed, and the affect or emotion is not
  expressed
• The original affect then expresses itself in
  bodily symptoms, a process called hysterical
  conversion
• Cure consists of verbally reviewing the event,
  and releasing the original affect.

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Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Psychological Complex Uncovered with the use
of association tests with patients
Collaborated with Freud 1906-1912
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Freuds couch for use offree association
technique
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Freud and his Couch
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• Active Repression patient was motivated to
  actively repress traumatic information from
  consciousness.
• Content of repressed material was often sexual.
• Freuds formulated the Seduction Theory in
  1890s and rejected it in 1897.

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Controversial 1980s Historiography on Freud
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Freuds Structural Model of the Mind, 1923

• ID locus of fantasies, desire, unconscious
• EGO emerged from Id, but had adapted to society
• EGO-IDEAL (Super-ego) source of repression,
  moral conscience

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• Manifest Content of Dreamits story-line, a
  conscious process
• DREAM CENSORlets some information out,
  represses, disguises other information
• Latent Content of Dreamdream thoughts,
  unconscious, often unacceptable wishes

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Traumdeutung, Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

• Condensation dream concentrates or compresses a
  number of different ideas into one a composite
  picture.
• Displacement transformation of dream thoughts
  into more acceptable thoughts in order to conceal
  unconscious meaning.
• Representation all material gathered into a
  single situation in the dream.
• Symbolization a certain set of symbols exist in
  unconscious, and become part of the dream.

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International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar 1911
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Freuds Inner Circle (1922)
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• Hotel Log Hints at Illicit Desire That Dr.
  Freud Didnt Repress

Sigmund Freud with his wife, Martha Bernays
Freud, center, and her sister, Minna Bernays,
left, in 1929. from New York Times December 24,
2006