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Sigmund Freud



Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. He developed techniques such as the use of free association and identified the phenomenon of transference. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the underlying mechanisms of repression, and on this basis he elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego, and superego. He also postulated the existence of libido, a sexualized energy that generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression, and neurotic guilt.

Sigmund Freud
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Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development

Freud’s theory of psychosexual development claims that as we grow up, we pass through five critical phases which are defined by our sexual drive, also called libido, concentrating at specific erogenous zones.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageProperly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

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Moses and Monotheism

This volume contains Freud’s speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he explains certain characteristics of Jewish people in their relations with Christians.

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Sigmund Freud's Life and Contributions to Psychology

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who is perhaps most known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud's developed a set of therapeutic techniques centered on talk therapy that involved the use of strategies such as transference, free association, and dream interpretation.

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The History of Psychoanalysis | Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis as a Treatment for Mental Disorders

In the first of a series introducing psychoanalysis by exploring its different facets, Dr. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic outlines the broad psychoanalytic terrain of treatment and briefly indicates the nature of its various strands.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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The Life, Work, and Theories of Sigmund Freud

Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud's theories and work helped shape our views of childhood, personality, memory, sexuality, and therapy.

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The Ego & the Id

All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego.

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Dreamwork 101: Your Wide-Awake Guide to Interpreting Dreams

In ancient times, people saw dreams as vessels of meaning that contained divine messages and had the power to alter history. Alexander the Great was on the verge of breaking ground for his new city when a gray-haired man appeared to him in a dream.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

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