Two Great Philosophers and their Principal Theories
Sigmund Schlomo Freud was an Austrian neurologist born on May 06, 1856. Freud is know as the father of psychoanalysis, his theories of the unconscious mind and repression. Freud created the clinical method of psychoanalysis to investigate and treat psychopathology. Freud understood the workings of the human brain. He was intrigued by it, I believe that was one of the reasons he was a neurologist. Freud came from a poor family of eight children and he was favored over his other siblings the most. His parents sacrificed for his education regardless of being poor. Freud went to a preteigous high school and graduated with honors.
Freud studied under great philosopher’s, Darwinist Prof and Karl Claus at the medical University of Vienna. Freud admired many philosopher of his time, but brought Fredrich Nietzsche collected works when he passed away only to read not study, basically to put his beliefs and spins on Nietzsche. Freud went on a traveling fellowship to Paris to study with the most sought after neurologist, St. Jean-Martin Charcott. Jean Martin Charcott was studying hypnosis to cure mental illness. Hypnosis was not something Freud admired, and this experience turned his career towards the “school of thought”. Freud opened his own medical practice, for neurology and also married. Freud was well know for a patient named Anna “O”, who inspired the psychoanalytic “talking cure”. The talking cure is still used this day as the basis of psychoanalysis. Many psychologist during Freud's early studies, felt the talking cure method was stupid and that it did not cure patient's, but Freud through his research brought repressed thought's and feelings into consciousness in order to fr...
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...was of Jude-Christianity, but in impulses from life, basically you follow whatever is going on in your head, weather it is good or evil. Nietzsche work has influenced the idea of European power of man to dominate and master. His teachings were to identify and be yourself regardless of the typically morals of the world. My learning more about Nietzsche teachings has me a little vexed, but people like Nietzsche feed the Anglo-Saxon's power even more, and slavery is something that goes down generation to generation because of teachings like Nietzsche. The idea of super man has influenced war's and the presence that man can hold all the power in their hands. Nietzsche was very sickly and contracted syphilis which drove him to become crazy, so some attribute his works to craziness, but we can not deny his ideas, and that is why Nietzsche writings are still studied today.
However, Nietzsche’s idea of the powerful forcing their will on common people resonates with me. It is something we see in our modern society, wealthy people seem to have a higher influence over the average American. Examples of powerful people controlling others are found in politics, economy, media, and religion. Common people are lead to think in certain ways that the powerful need them to. Nietzsche said that people will only be equal as long as they are equal in force and talent, people who have a higher social group are more influential in decisions because average people look to them for information. The thing I do not agree with Nietzsche on his view as Christianity as a weakness because religion is a main cause of people’s decision
Friedrich Nietzsche was a brilliant and outspoken man who uses ideas of what he believe in what life is about. He did not believe in what is right and wrong because if who opposed the power. Nietzsche was against Democracy because how they depend on other people to make some different or change, while Nietzsche believe they should of just pick the ones that were gifted and talent to choose what to change. Nietzsche also does not believe in Aristocracy because how they depend on an individual person to create the rules or change those benefits for him. As you see Nietzsche did not like how they depend on one person to decide instead of each person to decide for himself for their own benefits.
Friedrich Nietzsche is recognized for being one of the most influential German philosophers of the modern era. He is known for his works on genealogy of morality, which is a way to study values and concepts. In Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche mentions that values and concepts have a history because of the many different meanings that come with it. Nietzsche focused on traditional ethical theories, especially those rooted in religion. Not being a religious man, he believed that human life has no moral purpose except for the significance that human beings give it.
Nietzsche uses an elevated level of diction to help him achieve his purpose, he uses Latin in many passages to make the reader look to the bottom of the page and thus think about what he is proposing. His combination of elevated diction along with deductive reasoning can sometimes lose the reader, but just as fast as the reader is lost Nietzsche offers forth a formula which helps the reader follow his thinking. Nietzsche believes that a person’s "virtue is the consequence of happiness," or that a person’s emotions are the product of their beliefs. Nietzsche’s uses consequence to mean something more like cause than effect. He interchanges monosyllabic and polysyllabic - in the form of metaphors - words in connotation to sometimes differ the reader from the beaten track of thinking. He believes in a set course "that he became ill, that he failed to resist the illness," for humans and that they cannot deter from it (this is very far left in a time of conservative Europeans, late 19th century). Even in his "formulas" Nietzsche’s meaning is not as straight forward as it seems. It seems that he believes that individuals genetically are means to an end, but this is more of a metaphor for humanity, or that humanity is their own means to an end.
Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia in the year of 1856. Crain said that Freud was smart, so his family fully supported him to continue his studies (137). Boring points out, in Freud’s early life, he discovered the medical usage of cocaine (433). Later, his marriage and parenthood brought him contentment, therefore, it was understood that he “was strengthened in support of his own theory of sexuality and in withstanding the odium sexuale that was directed towards him” as his sexual wants to male dominance and to monogamy were conservative and fundamental (Boring 434). In the year of 1902, another famous psychologist was born in Frankfurt, Germany, Erik Erikson, but he was not a psychologist firstly. He was known that he did not graduate from high school because he was not interested in school education (Woolfolk 67). However, the event of meeting with Sigmund Freud changed his life, and he started to study child psychoanalysis (Woolfolk 67). The most...
Sigmund Freud is considered to be one of the most studied and respected historical figures in psychology. Freud has had a huge impact on the way we think today. He also is responsible for creation psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud is even known as the “father of psychoanalysis”. Through endless contentious theories such as, the Case of Anna O, the Unconscious Mind, the Psyche, and the most infamous of his theories, the Psychosexual stage, Freud has generated many fans and supporters. His works has earned him a place in the list of psychology legends today.
“According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,” Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian Empire. Freud passed away the 23 of September 1939 in London England, he was 83. Freud is known to be one of the founding fathers of Psychoanalysis. Freud attended the University of Vienna in 1873. Throughout the years of university, Freud studied biology for six years doing research of the Physiology under the German Scientist, Ernst Brucke. In 1881 Freud graduated with a medical degree. According to goodtherapy.com, “Freud drew heavily upon the emphasis of the philosopher such as Nietzche Dostoevsky and Kant. Freud’s theories continue to influence much of modern psychological and his ideas towards philosophy, sociology and political science. Freud’s emphasis upon early life and the drive the pleasure are perhaps his most significant contribution to philosophy. Some of Freud’s most significant theories were the Development of the Unconscious and Conscious Minds. Freud argued that the minds consist of the conscious mind which contains thought that...
Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia (which is now Czech Republic) on May 6, 1856. He was born to a Jewish Galician parents and he was the first born child in a family of eight. He is well known as the Austrian neurologist and due to his studies he is infamously known as the father of psychoanalysis. He received his medical degree in 1881 where he was qualified as a doctor of medicine at Vienna University. This is where he began his studies on cerebral palsy, aphasia, and other neuroanatomy topics. Around 1886 Freud set up his own private practice in the treatment of psychological disorders. Freud then married Martha Bernay in 1886. In 1908 Freud’s became
Sigmund Freud, known as one of the most influential psychologists the world has seen, was born in 1856 in the city of Freiberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire of Moravian. Freiberg was a city of trees and nature, and Freud always felt attached to his surroundings. His father bore two children in his first marriage, twenty years prior to Sigmund’s birth. His first wife later died, and he re-married. Sigmund was born from his father’s second wife, Amelia, and she later bore seven more children (Chiriac).
He began his university studies at the University of Vienna in 1873. He was enrolled in medical school, but focused his attention on biology (Thornton par. 3). Between the years 1885 and 1886, Freud spent his time in Paris. He was amazed by the work of Jean Charcot and his hypnotism. However, once back in Vienna, he discovered that the effects of hypnotism did not last long. He worked with Josef Breuer and together they discovered that neuroses were caused by traumatic experiences. They tried to find way to bring out these experiences in their patients, hoping to cure them. They published their finding under the title, Studies in Hysteria (1895). Freud and Breuer soon parted, due to Breuer not agreeing with Freud’s belief on sexual origins. Freud believed sexual desires and instincts drove people to think and act they way they do (McLeod par. 2) Freud's theories were not received well by society until 1908. After he was invited to teach courses in the United States, he gained the reputation he is known for today (Thornton par. 6). He developed psychoanalysis as a new science. Freud's successful and, appearance wise, happy career contrasted against his personal
Freud also was a medical doctor that specialized in the treatment of nervous disorder also known as neuroses. His main focus was that of psychoanalysis. He was also the first person to map out the entire subconscious geography of the human psych. Through his studies, he concluded that disordered thinking was the result of fears experienced in childhood. These disorders can range from hysteria, anxiety, depression, and obsession. Through his studies, he argued that neurotic behaviors had to be treated by bringing childhood experiences to the surface and confront them.
When reading Nietzsche, we can pick up from him that he was very educated often better than most philosophers. Or so he thought. Although he had a very poor outlook on his culture and everyday society, he had very strong opinions when it came to humans and their actions. He made strong assumptions whether people agreed with him or not. An assumption such as, he believed most philosophers and researchers were not as educated as he was, which we pick up in his writings. Nietzsche’s main goal in his essays are to educate those on morality. First, Nietzsche believed that specific words and human actions have evolved over time to things they were never intended to become. Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, a small town in Austro-Hungarian. His parents were Amalia and Jacob Freud. His father was an industrious wool merchant with a happy and witty personality. His mother was a cheerful and vivacious woman. He was one of nine siblings. He was the first-born child of Amali and Jacob; however, two male siblings where from his father’s first marriage. When he was a young boy, his family moved to Vienna where he lived most of his life. At the age of twenty-six, he fell madly in love with Martha Bernays when she was visiting one of his sisters. Shortly thereafter, they married and had six children of their own three boys and three girls. His children describe him as a loving and compassionate man.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychoanalyst in the twentieth century whose studies and interests were focused on psychosexual behavior, psychosocial behavior, and the unconscious. He blames incestual desires and acts on neurosis and believes neurotics were victimized and molested in their youth. Congruently, this is his explanation for sexual urges in children. He watched psychiatrists fail at inventions of electrical and chemical treatments for mental disorders, only for them to turn to treatments that followed concepts of psychoanalysis. Even though drugs diminish symptoms of suffering he believed psychoanalytic or talking therapy would truly restore a patient’s self-esteem and welfare. As quoted by Ernst G. Beier:
Freud originally attempted to explain the workings of the mind in terms of physiology and neurology ...(but)... quite early on in his treatment of patients with neurological disorders, Freud realised that symptoms which had no organic or bodily basis could imitate the real thing and that they were as real for the patient as if they had been neurologically caused. So he began to search for psychological explanations of these symptoms and ways of treating them.