Essay - Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, Was a Physiologist, Medical...

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a physiologist, medic*****l doctor, psychologist, and is regarded as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century (Sigmund). Working in collaboration with Joseph Breuer, ***** elaborated on the idea that the mind ***** a complex energy-system, articulated ***** refined the concepts of the unconscious, of infantile sexuality, ***** repression, and proposed a tri-partite account of the structure ***** the mind (Sigmund). This w***** all part of a r*****dically new conceptual and therapeutic frame for understanding human psychological development, and treating abnormal mental conditions (Sigmund). As it exists today, the multiple manifestations of ***** can be traced back to Freud's original work, ***** his treatment of human actions, dreams, and cultural artifacts has had vast implications for a number ***** study fields, including semiotics, anthropology, and artistic creativity (Sigmund). Yet, whether ***** claim that psychoanalysis is a new science of the mind, ***** still a subject of debate and controversy (Sigmund).

***** Sigismund Schlomo Freud on May 6, 185***** in Freiberg, Moravia, he changed ***** name to Sigmund when he was 22 years because he felt his birth name was too long (Sharma).

***** qualified as a neurologist from the University of Vienna ***** 1881, studied the art of Hypnosis in Paris under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1886, he married one of his former patients, Martha Bernays, with whom ***** had six children (Sharma). In 1895, he co-authored Studies in Hysteria with Breur, whose most famous patient, Anna O, called hypnosis "talking cure" (Sharma). T***** began Freud's journey on the road of psychoanalysis, "which started with abreacti***** a combination of catharsis and *****, yet abreaction failed due to the forces of ***** and resistance from patients, resulting in Freud developing "free *****sociation," a technique ***** allowed ***** patients to say whatever came in***** their ********** without censorship ***** any thoughts (Sharma).

In essence, Freud's theory was to treat all of human consciousness as a book, in which everything that is written down h***** a reason (*****). T*****us, his theories were uninhibited, and in the Victorian era, there were m***** restrictions and sex ***** sexual impulses were never spoken of openly (Sharma). Freud was a l***** rebe***** aga*****st these norms, exploring the most forbidden terrain ***** the unfathomable human mind, the unconscious, ***** is that ***** of the mind that ***** houses ***** of ***** "repressed, guilt-provoking, unfulfilled, forbidden thoughts which are traumatic to the conscious mind" (Sharma). He divided the mind into three parts, the conscious, ***** pre-conscious, and the unconscious, and believed ***** humans are irrational and instinct-driven, conflicting to the views ***** rational behavior and order, on which science, religi***** and society are based (Sharma). In 1900, Freud compiled 'Interpretation of Dreams,' concluding, "dreams ***** the royal road to exploring what lay in this unconscious previously uncharted area ***** m*****d" (Sharma).

Freud outlined the following stages:

The oral stage - ***** ***** about 18 months; focus of pleasure is the mouth;

favorite activities are sucking ***** biting.