Early Influences of Freud´s Theory

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Sigmund Freud was born March 6 1856 in Freiberg, Austria. Freud’s birth was somewhat of a controversy. The original announcement was that he was born May 6. The fact is that his mother Amalie was pregnant before she married Freud father Jakob. Freud was the eldest of eight children with Amaile Jokob’s third wife. His father did have two previous marriages. The first marriage he had two other children with Sally Kanner. Amalie had a great impact and influence on her son’s “Freud” theories. Amaile was much younger than Jokob. History says that she at the time of marriage was about the same age as Jokob’s children from his first marriage. Freud stated his relationship with his mother contributed to his theories. Studying with both Breuer and Charcot also had a large impact in his life and helped shaped who he became. The makeup of human behavior; id, ego and super ego is exactly what we are according to Freud. We as humans are “The theory of personality”. Every experience develops our core self. This is what makes us different from each other and yet the same as a species.
Freud was truly original in the way he analyzed human behavior in that period. Reason for that is, because he had less readily available information and tools do today such as computers and libraries .This required much more thinking that is critical, depth and accuracy. He was very intellectual using his life experience and numerous influences to develop his theories. Throughout his life experience came one very influential self-analysis “The Interpretation of Dreams” this was developed from the emotional devastation from the death of Freud’s father. He was often confused as his brother was the same age as his mother, which led to fantasies about his bro...

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