Sigmund Freud's Impact on Psychology



Sigmund Freud's Impact on Psychology

Introduction

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg in Moravia. He was an Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst, cultural theorists and critics of religion, and founder of psychoanalysis that received worldwide recognition. Freud is considered as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century, his theories and methods are controversial to this day.

Freud also conducted research in the areas of hysteria, brain anatomy, libido (drive) and early childhood sexual development. With his psychoanalysis he had a very significant influence on the development of psychotherapy (Laplanche & Pontalis, 2012).

History of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud spoke for the first time in 1896, as a" the somewhat subtle investigation procedures of Josef Breuer ", this was in the treatment of Bertha Pappenheim managed their symptoms resolve by Pappenheim the actual trauma that behind their symptoms were hiding, track and let pronounce. It was about the naming of what they had actually experienced to injury, humiliation, disgust, devaluation, violence, etc., but because of 'good parenting' is not allowed to name.

Until September 1897 Freud called his method several times “psychoanalysis”, but kept it at least to the principle of Breuer's treatment determined by letting explore and identify experiences of violence his patients (Laplanche & Pontalis, 2012).

This is the approach he rejected then in September 1897 and perverted it virtually into its opposite: now he considered the runaway instinctual desires and fantasies of the child to his parents are a source of numerous disorders. A month later he formulated against Wilhelm Fliess according to self-analytical considerations for the first time the theory of the “Oedipus complex”.

He postulated the phenomenon of unconscious libidinal ties to his own mother with a simultaneous rivalry relationship with his father: “I have found falling in love with the mother and jealousy of the father with me and keep them for now a common occurrence early childhood. If that is so, then one understands the gripping power of Oedipus the King”.

On 4th November 1899 appeared to Freud's early major work, The Interpretation of Dreams, backdated to 1900. There followed in quick succession the writings of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901), Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). In the same year Freud founded the “Psychological Wednesday Society”, from 1908, the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society emerged. Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel and other colleagues ...