EARLY LIFE

Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856.

His father Jakob was 41, a merchant, and had two children by a
previous marriage. His mother Amalié (née Nathansohn), the third wife
of Jakob, was 21. Than with his family he moved to Leipzig in Vienna.

In 1937 the Nazis annexed Austria, and Freud, who was Jewish, was
allowed to leave for England. Psychoanalysis is a movement that it
was become in first ten of 900. It was born in a psychiatric enviromtent
thanks Sigmund Freud. He studied illnesses like isteria and nevrosi.
Freud after high school joined the medical faculty at University of
Vienna to study under Darwinist Prof, Karl Claus. He spent time at the
Austrian zoological research station in Trieste. But he didn’t find more
than his predecessors.
 EARLY LIFE

• Born in Frieberg in 1856.

• Jakob was his father. He was 41 and he was a merchant.
Amaliè was his mother she was 21.
• He moved to Leipzig.
• He was Jewish.
• In 1937 he left Austria. He moved to England.
• In 900 he studied Psychoanalysis (isteria-nevrosi).
• In Trieste he spent time of zoological research.
HOW HE BECAMES INTERESTED IN THIS
SCIENCE

Freud adopted the

psychodynamics proposed
by Germanphysiologist Ernst
Wilhelm von Brücke.
All living organisms are a
dynamic
system to which the laws
of chemistry and physics
apply.
This was the starting point for
Freud's dynamic
psychology of the mind and its
relation to the unconscious.
 HOW HE BECAMES INTERESTED
IN THIS SCIENCE

• Psychodynamics by Germanphysiologist Ernst Wilhelm

von Brücke;
• The organisms and relations to the unconscious.
 MAJOR RESEARCH
• Studies on Hysteria (with Josef Breuer) (Studien über Hysterie, 1895)
• With Robert Fliess: The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904
• The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung, 1899 [1900])
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901)
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie, 1905)
• Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (Der Witz und seine Beziehung
zum Unbewußten, 1905)
• Totem and Taboo (Totem und Tabu, 1913)
• On Narcissism (Zur Einführung des Narzißmus, 1914)
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Jenseits des Lustprinzips, 1920)
• The Ego and the Id (Das Ich und das Es, 1923)
• The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion, 1927)
• Civilization and Its Discontents (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, 1930)
• Moses and Monotheism (Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, 1939)
• An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Abriß der Psychoanalyse, 1940)
• A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses translated by Axel
Hoffer by Peter Hoffer, Harvard University Press.
 PRIZES HE GAINED

Freud recived the Goethe

Prize of Frankfurt-am-Main,
a triennial award.
 OTHER INTERESTING STRANGE OF CRAZY
FACTS COCAINE

Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine as a stimulant as well

as analgesic.
He wrote several articles on the antidepressant qualities of the drug.
Freud felt that cocaine would work as a panacea for many disorders and
wrote a well-received paper, "On Coca", explaining its virtues.
Freud also recommended it to many of his close family and friends.
Freud's friend Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of “cocaine
psychosis” as a result of Freud's prescriptions and died a few years later.
Freud felt great regret over these events, which later biographers have
dubbed “The Cocaine Incident’’.
He continued to use cocaine.
 COCAINE

• Cocaine is an analgesic and a stimulant;

• Drugs have antidepressant qualities;
• Drugs as a panacea for many disorders;
• Freud recommended drugs to his family and friends;
• A friend of Freud died for drug;
• Freud continued to use drugs.
QUESTIONS
3) Where was Sigmund Freud born?
4) How many people were there in his family?
5) Who were they?
6) What was his job?
7) What did he study?
8) What was his major research?
9) What prize did he receive?
10) What was cocaine for Freud?
11) Did he recommend drugs to his family and friends?
12) After the death of his friend did he continued to use drugs?