Biography of Sigmund Freud: One of the Founding Fathers of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud? Who is Sigmund Freud? Sigmund was a Australian neurologist, also known as on of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis. Then he qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna. Freud development therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference. His theory was unconscious as an agency of conscious states on mind. He postulated the existence of libido. Later he drew on psychoanalytic theory to develop a wide-ranging interpretation. Freud was born to Jewish Galcian parents in the Morvaian town of Pribor. He was one of 8 children. His father was a merchant. His theory was that humans have an unconscious, in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the defaces against them. Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was born in May 6, 1856. He died September 23, 1939. When he was young, Sigmund family moved to Vienna. (Where most of his life was) He was first to graduate in his class with Summa cum Laude. He studied medicine from that University of Vienna. So he worked to be a physician. Although he was good at what he did as a physician, he was amazed with the emotional disorder known as hysteria. He met a woman that had a disorder. Her symptoms were nervous cough, tactile anesthesia and paralysis. She also said that she was experiencing several traumatic experiences. He gave up the career in academia, he opened a medical practice and become interested more in psychological disorders. He first joined the French neurologist Professor Jean-Martin Charcot. Then he became familiar with hypnosis. Freud distinguished himself by giving the world a new medical discipline psychoanalysis. He developed an innovative approach to the human mind by provid...

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... a painful truth, that they feel is not important enough for them or embarrassing. Some say that those people can’t take when is really happening. Freud says they are in “Denial.” Freud, also states that our mental states were influenced by two competing forces, and they are called cathexis then anticathexis. Cathexis would be like mental energy in a person. Like say your hungry, and your thinking about what you want to eat. If you can't actually seek out food to appease your hunger, you might instead browse through a cookbook that what the ego might harness. Anticathexis involves the ego blocking the socially unacceptable needs. Freud says that infants gain knowledge and derive such pleasure from sucking. He calls this the oral stage of development. This stage is followed by the “anus” stage. (when the baby defecates) Soon later after the anus stage the “phallic”