Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

• Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen

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Short Biography

• May 6, 1856
• Sigismund Shlomo Freud
• Parents Jakob and Amalia Freud
• Seven siblings
• jewish

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Short Biography

• 1859  Father lost his job, family settles in
  Vienna
• 1873 Successful graduation (Matura), medicine
  study at Vienna University
• 1876  Freud joins Ernst Brückes 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

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Personal problems

• psychosomatic disorders
• exaggerated fears of dying
• sexual feelings for his mother
• Theory of the Oedipus Complex

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His Death

• In September 1939 his doctor and friend Max Schur
  assisted him in suicide.
• three doses of morphine over many hours
• Freud died on September 23, 1939.

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Id, Ego and Superego

• Mental activity exist at three levels
• 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

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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
• "On Coca
• The Cocaine Incident
• Jürgen von Scheidt speculated that most of
  Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct
  of his cocaine use.