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I Accept Show Purposes. The Oldest of Eight Children. Advocate and User of Cocaine Before the harmful effects were discovered, cocaine was often used as an analgesic and euphoric. Founder of Psychoanalysis It isn't often that an entire school of thought can be attributed to a single individual. How Psychoanalysis Influenced the Field of Psychology. Became a Doctor in Order to Marry When Freud was 26, he fell madly in love with a year-old woman named Martha Bernays and they became engaged two months later.
Developed the Use of Talk Therapy While Freud's theories are often criticized or rejected outright by today's psychotherapists, many continue to utilize the famous psychoanalyst's methods to a certain extent. May Have Been Misquoted While the famous quote is often repeated and attributed to Freud, there is no evidence that he ever actually said that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Left Vienna Because of Nazis When the Nazis invaded Austria, many of Freud's books were burned along with those by other famous thinkers.
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Published October 17, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Wallace I. Freud Visits America. The People's Almanac. Related Articles. Biography of Psychologist Melanie Klein. Sigmund Freud's Theories and Legacy in Psychology. This particular theory shows how adult personality is determined by childhood experiences.
Freud considered dreams to be the royal road to the unconscious as it is in dreams that the ego's defenses are lowered so that some of the repressed material comes through to awareness, albeit in distorted form. Dreams perform important functions for the unconscious mind and serve as valuable clues to how the unconscious mind operates. On 24 July , Freud had his own dream that was to form the basis of his theory. He had been worried about a patient, Irma, who was not doing as well in treatment as he had hoped.
Freud, in fact, blamed himself for this, and was feeling guilty. Freud interpreted this dream as wish-fulfillment. He had wished that Irma's poor condition was not his fault and the dream had fulfilled this wish by informing him that another doctor was at fault. Based on this dream, Freud went on to propose that a major function of dreams was the fulfillment of wishes. Freud distinguished between the manifest content of a dream what the dreamer remembers and the latent content, the symbolic meaning of the dream i.
The manifest content is often based on the events of the day. The process whereby the underlying wish is translated into the manifest content is called dreamwork.
The purpose of dreamwork is to transform the forbidden wish into a non-threatening form, thus reducing anxiety and allowing us to continue sleeping.
Dreamwork involves the process of condensation, displacement, and secondary elaboration. For example, a dream about a man may be a dream about both one's father and one's lover. A dream about a house might be the condensation of worries about security as well as worries about one's appearance to the rest of the world.
Displacement takes place when we transform the person or object we are really concerned about to someone else. Freud interpreted this as representing his wish to kill his sister-in-law. If the patient would have really dreamed of killing his sister-in-law, he would have felt guilty. The unconscious mind transformed her into a dog to protect him. Secondary elaboration occurs when the unconscious mind strings together wish-fulfilling images in a logical order of events, further obscuring the latent content.
According to Freud, this is why the manifest content of dreams can be in the form of believable events. Some of these were sexual in nature, including poles, guns, and swords representing the penis and horse riding and dancing representing sexual intercourse.
However, Freud was cautious about symbols and stated that general symbols are more personal rather than universal. In an amusing example of the limitations of universal symbols, one of Freud's patients, after dreaming about holding a wriggling fish, said to him 'that's a Freudian symbol - it must be a penis!
Freud explored further, and it turned out that the woman's mother, who was a passionate astrologer and a Pisces, was on the patient's mind because she disapproved of her daughter being in analysis.
It seems more plausible, as Freud suggested, that the fish represented the patient's mother rather than a penis! Freud attracted many followers, who formed a famous group in called the "Psychological Wednesday Society. At the beginning of , the committee had 22 members and renamed themselves the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Is Freudian psychology supported by evidence?
Freud's theory is good at explaining but not at predicting behavior which is one of the goals of science. For this reason, Freud's theory is unfalsifiable - it can neither be proved true or refuted.
For example, the unconscious mind is difficult to test and measure objectively. Overall, Freud's theory is highly unscientific. Such empirical findings have demonstrated the role of unconscious processes in human behavior.
However, most of the evidence for Freud's theories are taken from an unrepresentative sample. He mostly studied himself, his patients and only one child e. The main problem here is that the case studies are based on studying one person in detail, and with reference to Freud, the individuals in question are most often middle-aged women from Vienna i.
This makes generalizations to the wider population e. However, Freud thought this unimportant, believing in only a qualitative difference between people. Freud may also have shown research bias in his interpretations - he may have only paid attention to information which supported his theories, and ignored information and other explanations that did not fit them. Strachey with Anna Freud , 24 vols.
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