Friedrich Nietzsche: Ten Lectures

Author: Sulong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the International Psychoanalytic Association, was born on May 6, 1856, in the Czech Republic. At the age of four, his family moved to Vienna. He entered the Medical School of the University of Vienna at 17 and obtained a medical degree. From 1876 to 1881, he conducted research on hysteria under the guidance of the renowned physiologist Josef Breuer. In 1881, he began private practice in Vienna as a clinical neurologist. He married Martha in 1886 and had three sons and three daughters. His daughter, Anna Freud, later became a renowned psychologist as well. In 1938, due to persecution by the Nazis, he moved to London, where he passed away on September 23, 1939, from oral cancer.
Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis. His interest in psychoanalysis began in 1884 when he collaborated with Breuer to treat a 21-year-old hysteric patient named Anna O. Inspired by Breuer's "cathartic method," he later studied hypnosis with Charcot in Paris and combined these techniques to establish "psychoanalysis" and "free association" as methods for treating mental illness. His most significant contribution to psychology was the revelation of the human unconscious process. His subconscious analysis of dreams led humanity to a deeper understanding of itself, and his theories profoundly influenced Salvador Dalí's paintings, D.H. Lawrence's novels, Alfred Hitchcock's films, and Gustav Mahler's music. His perspective on the unconscious life left a deep imprint on almost all humanities fields—medicine, literature, philosophy, sociology, aesthetics, anthropology, law, and education.
This book is a popular introduction to Sigmund Freud and his main ideas.