Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Couverture rigide

Freud, Sigmund

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ISBN 10 : 1572154683 ISBN 13 : 9781572154681

Editeur : JG PR, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Sigmund Freud

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sigmund Freud; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillment provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture. Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. In the words of W. H. Auden's 1940 poetic tribute, by the time of Freud's death, he had become "a whole climate of opinion under whom we conduct our different lives."

Biographie de l'auteur

Sigismand Schlomo Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg in Mahren, Moravia, which was then part of the Austrian Empire, but today is part of the Czech Republic, the oldest of eight children. The Jewish family struggled in those days, and left for Vienna. In 1865, Sigmund entered a prominent high school and became an outstanding student with a love of literature. At the age of 17, he attended the University of Vienna to study law, but ended up graduating as an MD. In 1882, he began a medical career in a psychiatric clinic and went into private practice in 1886, specializing in nervous disorders. He married Martha Bernays the same year, and they had six children. It was at this time that Freud became an advocate for the use of cocaine as an antidepressant, anesthetic and cure for morphine addiction. He also became a pioneer in many areas of psychology. By 1896, Freud had created the term “psychoanalysis” and a new clinical method and began lecturing to small audiences every Saturday night at the University. A heavy smoker, in 1923, he developed cancer of the mouth and almost died from loss of blood during a botched operation. In 1938, the family was forced to escape from the Nazi occupation on the Orient Express, eventually settling in London. Four of his sisters however, dies in concentration camps. By 1939, the cancer had spread to his jaw and was inoperable. He turned to a friend and fellow doctor, who administered a fatal dose of morphine. Freud died on September 23, 1939, at the age of 83, in London, England. He was cremated and his ashes were placed in an ancient Greek urn at the Golders Green Crematorium.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: JG PR
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1572154683
• ISBN 13: 9781572154681
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible