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Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD; [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...
Freud desired to understand religion and spirituality and deals with the nature of religious beliefs in many of his books and essays. He regarded God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure. Freud believed that religion was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress.
Freud extensively quotes Le Bon, who explains that the state of the individual in the crowd is "hypnotic", with which Freud agrees. He adds that the contagion and the higher suggestibility are different kinds of change of the individual in de mass. [3] Freud distinguishes between two types of masses.
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, or Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (German: Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker), is a 1913 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author applies his work to the fields of ...
Freud works out condensation (for example in the contraction of words, when ‘familiär’ and ‘millionaire’ are combined to form ‘famillionär’), as a central techniques of jokes. This includes information about mixed word formation, modification, the use of identical (word) material, rearrangements, simple modifications and others.
Paul Federn, Ego Psychology and the Psychoses (1952) Jean Laplanche, Vie et Mort en Psychanalyse (1970) Rob Weatherill, The death drive: new life for a dead subject? (1999). Niklas Hageback, The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct Gaudium; Reprint edition. (2020). ISBN 978-1592110346. Edoardo Weiss, Principles of Psychodynamics (New York 1950)
Even after the break with Jung, when "complex" became a term to be handled with care among Freudians, the father complex remained important in Freud's theorizing in the twenties; [7] —for example, it appeared prominently in The Future of an Illusion (1927). [8] Others in Freud's circle wrote freely of the complex's ambivalent nature. [9]
An Outline of Psychoanalysis was the last major work written by Sigmund Freud, published in 1940 (a year after his death). An Outline of Psychoanalysis is a work by Sigmund Freud . Returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis , Freud began writing this work in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London.