State
College Prof. Paulo Machado Mozart
Samuel de
Oliveira Soth # 23 9A
Prof: Ana
Adelia
English
assignment
Sigmund
Freud
Sigmund
Freud (1856-1939) was the Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist. It is the
father of psychoanalysis. He used the term psychoanalysis for the first time in
1896.
Sigmund
Freud (1856-1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia, when it belonged to the
Austrian Empire, on May 6, 1856. The son of Jacob Freud, small trader and
Amalie Nathanson. Jewish family, was the eldest of seven children. At age four
his family moved to Vienna, where Jews had better social acceptance and better
economic prospects.
From an
early age he proved to be a brilliant student. At 17, he entered the University
of Vienna in the course of Medicine. During the college years, he worked in
neurophysiology laboratory until graduating in 1881. In 1882, he met Martha
Bemays. They get engaged and in 1886, when Freud already had private practice,
performing the marriage. They had six children. Ana, the youngest, was a secretary,
nurse and father disciple.
Freud worked
in Paris for six months, with the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. He
observed the treatment of hysteria with the use of hypnosis, then awakening his
interest in the study of mental disorders. He became a specialist in nervous
diseases. Then founded his psychoanalytic theories of mind.
In
"Studies on Hysteria" (1893), describes the symptoms of nervous
disease and emotional energy manifestations non-discharged associated with
forgotten psychic traumas. Replacing hypnosis by the analysis of dreams and the
association of ideas to reveal the unconscious mental processes at the root of
the disorder. In affirming the influence of the unconscious on human actions
and the connection of sexual impulses with the neuroses, the opposition wins
the scientific community.
To better
study their patients, started a self-analysis process. He worked with the
interpretation of his own dreams. In 1896, first used the term psychoanalysis.
Freud surrounded himself with a group of followers, among them Alfred Adler and
Carl Jung.
In 1903, he
founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. The first of psychoanalysis sign of
acceptance in academia comes in 1909, when invited to give lectures in the USA.
After World War I (1914-1918), using his theories to interpret culture,
mythology, religion, art, and history.
Sigismund
Schlomo Freud died in London, England, on September 23, 1939.
