Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Essential Edition)

Author: (Austrian) Freud
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Publish Date: 1997-02-01
Features: He "was not an, but just an observer," or a doctor treating neurotic patients. During his observations or treatments, he found that patients' instinctual desires were improperly repressed, leading to illness. Therefore, he believed that the moral laws of human society demanded too much sexual sacrifice, often exceeding what was necessary. As a result, he emphasized sex to an inappropriate degree, leading to theoretical absurdities. Freud (1856–1939) was a renowned Austrian psychiatrist and one of the four most influential psychologists in the world. In his research on hysteria, he and Breuer adopted hypnosis to treat it, thereby founding psychoanalytic therapy and establishing the theoretical system of psychoanalysis. Subsequently, psychoanalysis not only had a significant impact on the field of psychology abroad but also influenced Western philosophy, social, and literary trends.