Transcript Sigmund Freud Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen

Sigmund Freud
Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen
Short Biography
May 6, 1856
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Sigismund Shlomo
Freud
Parents: Jakob and
Amalia Freud
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Seven siblings
jewish
Short Biography
1859 Father lost his job, family settles in Vienna
1873 Successful graduation (Matura), medicine
study at Vienna University
1876 Freud joins Ernst Brücke’s 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
Personal problems
psychosomatic
disorders
exaggerated fears of
dying
sexual feelings for his
mother
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Theory of the
“Oedipus Complex”
His Death
In September 1939
his doctor and friend
Max Schur assisted
him in suicide.
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three doses of
morphine over many
hours
Freud died on
September 23, 1939.
Id, Ego and Superego
Mental activity exist at
three levels:
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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
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
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"On Coca“
“The Cocaine Incident”
Jürgen von Scheidt speculated that most of
Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct
of his cocaine use.