Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and the Psychodynamic School

Freud and Psychology

Behavior + Psychoanalysis

  • highly deterministic sense

Sigmund Freud (1856 -1939)

  • called himself one of the big great mythbusters

  • third blow is to say that human beings dont know what theyre doing or who they are; we are not the amsters of our own mind

  • born in Moravia, father sold linens

  • first-born child to his father’s third wife

  • family moved to Vienna when freud was 4 years old; 7 siblings followed

  • childhood interest in archaeology

  • 1881, graduated with degree in medicine from the University of of Vienna

  • interested in research career

  • practiced as a neurologist in order to marry Martha Bernays

  • problems of Hysteria

    • ex: “glove” anesthesia, blindness, etc

  • mesmerism and hypnosis

    • Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815)

  • studied at the Salpetriere (Salt peter/gun powder) in Paris with Jean Charcot

The Problem of Hysteria in 19th century neurology

  • origins are in the mind

Jean Martin Charcot

Psychoanalysis

  • unconscious

    • wishes came out anyway even if they were blocked by the preconscious

  • preconscious

    • gate that prevents some wishes

  • conscious

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

  • freud and jung

  • great war insprees Thanatos (the “death” instinct)

  • 1923 surgery for jaw and throat cancer

  • 1938 Nazi occupation of Vienna

  • Persecution and then escape to London in 1938

    • 4 sisters that died in the Holocaust

  • death in 1939 by lethal injection of morphine

    • 1939 - two weeks after poland invaded Germany - asked daughter to euthanize him