SIGMUND FREUD

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Introduction

Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia within a Jewish family. He was the eldest of six children. He also had two siblings from a previous marriage of his father. In 1860, when he was three years old, his family moved to Vienna hoping to regain his father lost his business prosperity of wool. Although his family went through great economic difficulties, his parents struggled to obtain a good education and in 1873, when he was 17, Freud entered the University of Vienna as a medical student in an atmosphere of growing anti-Semitism. In 1877, he shortened his name from Sigismund Schlomo Freud to Sigmund Freud. Unconventional but brilliant student, he was assistant to Professor E. Brücke Institute of Physiology in Vienna between 1876 and 1882. In 1880, she met her future collaborator Joseph Breuer (Wollheim & Richard, 1971).

In 1881 he graduated as a doctor. Freud worked under the direction of Theodor Meynert in Vienna General Hospital between 1883 and 1885. As a medical researcher, Freud was a pioneer in proposing the therapeutic use of cocaine as a stimulant and pain reliever. Between 1884 and 1887 he wrote many articles on the properties of the drug. Based on the experiments that he conducted in the laboratory of neuroanatomy of the notable Austrian pathologist and specialist in histology Salomon Stricker, failed to demonstrate the properties of cocaine as a local anesthetic.

Freud, for many years suffered from depression, chronic fatigue and apathy, with obstinate dyspepsia, bodily symptoms which then assumed the form of anxiety attacks. Neurotic reactions were exacerbated in his tumultuous loving commitment, in which sediment abstinence neurasthenia. Depression, like any neurotic manifestation, reduces the feeling of power and virility, and restores cocaine. I was determined to make a name in the professional and their efforts crystallized in the success he expected. Those were lean years and uncertainty about the future, and Freud is the expectation of a windfall that allows professional and economic foothold in order to marry his fiancee Martha (Gay & Peter, 1988). Although Charcot did not know their professional work until it was dissatisfied. Research conducted under the direction of Brücke and his work in clinical neurology, were fundamentally conservative but showed singular talent and originality in the details. The objectives, concepts, methodology, the questions raised and answers are elements completely aligned with the positivist doctrine of his admired teachers. In 1884 Freud published his work Über Coca ("On Coca"), which occurred several other articles on the subject. Applying the results of Freud, but without quoting, Carl Koller used cocaine with great success in ophthalmic surgery and interventions about publishing and getting recognition for it a great scientist.

Discussion and Analysis

Drugs and the pursuit of happiness

In the essay "On the malaise in the culture" (1930) Sigmund Freud tried to explain that our present civilization culture and the pursuit of happiness of the individual are seen in opposition to each other. In the course of this treatise, he speaks about a variety of cultural services ...