Today we will know the particular world of a brilliant modern spirit, we will take a fascinating tour of the biography of Sigmund Freud, one of the authors who most captivated us with his controversial ideas and contributions on the functioning of the human being, his instincts and unconscious desires.
Because Sigmund Fred was one of the most open and lucid men of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who bravely dared to scandalize the dominant society of his time, being today a reference for many psychologists, and leaving him for later, the famous study of the creative mind of psychoanalysis.
- Sigmund Freud’s early years were quite hard.
- He was born on 6 May 1856 in the city of Freiburg.
- Then belonging to Moravia and now the territory of the Czech Republic.
- His father.
- A wool merchant.
- Suffered in times of crisis.
- Which caused the future psychoanalyst to suffer enormous difficulties in his youth.
However, Sigmund Freud had a keen instinct since childhood, as he was born into a family with a father over the age of 40, a mother twenty years younger and a second wife, with a brother of the same age as Freud’s mother whose son was born. practically with him, which allowed him to sharpen his intelligence.
Sigmund Freud’s family was Jewish, so he subsequently suffered from Nazi anti-Semitism, but despite his fidelity to his customs, he was not particularly religious, his father being a free thinker, which led young Freud to lose his beliefs in adolescence.
Sigmund was an excellent student. He was only 17 years old and finished high school in 1873 with excellent grades, then his parents made enormous sacrifices for him, as he seemed to have a brilliant career and a bright future, decided to go on and get a medical degree, renounting the Law.
The intention of the young Sigmund Freud, however, was not to practice medicine, but to study the human condition according to the cans of science. The spark of curiosity already marked his presence in the student’s mind.
Already in the middle of his university studies, Sigmund Fred decided to focus his career on biological research, ending up as a collaborator in Enrst Von Brecke’s laboratory, conducting his first studies on the human brain.
In the late 1870s, he befriended Josef Breuer, who helped Freud materially and morally in his research, becoming a very close and beloved collaborator.
Soon after, he met Martha Bernays, who would then become his wife, a vital woman in his life, as he also came from a Jewish intellectual family.
It was at this time, in the early 1880s, that she decided to drop out of college and marry Martha Bernays, also left Von Brecke’s laboratory and began her professional career as a doctor, since she already had an official diploma.
Although he had no intention of becoming a doctor, Freud began working to improve his economic situation, despite this, after visiting and working in several hospitals in Vienna, he specialized in neurology, including studying the therapeutic use of cocaine.
Freud experimented on his own, becoming a drug addict, as did his friend Von Felischl, and ended up receiving criticism from the scientific community and had a somewhat tarnished reputation.
After graduating, he went to Paris, where he continued his studies under the direction of Jean Martin Charchot, a great neurologist of the time, at which point he began his studies on hysteria.
Shortly after her marriage to Martha, she had several breaks caused by the jealousy of Sigmund, who even felt affected by anyone who showed her affection, including her own mother.
At her wedding, which gave birth to six children, Sigmund opened her own neurologist’s office, using methods such as hypnosis and electrotherapy.
Later, and with Breuer, he began the development of psychoanalysis, although his early studies focused on hysteria, as well as his early publications, at which point Freud began to observe the role of sexuality in psychic disorders.
Subsequently, Sigmund Freud broke up with Breuer and transformed all his clinical and therapeutic methodology from concepts of psychoanalysis such as return, unconsciousness and transfer, which led to him being despised by the medical community.
At the beginning of the new twentieth century it began with its most famous publications, which are of great importance to this day. Among them, it highlights “The interpretation of dreams”, “The introduction to psychoanalysis”, “Three contributions of sexual theory”, all republished and with new ideas of the psychoanalyst.
At that time, Sigmund became increasingly popular among the medical community, and his field of psychoanalytic research became increasingly attractive to other specialists and high society patients at the time.
In the mid-1900s, other specialists became interested in Freud’s work, being invited to the first psychoanalytic congress conceived by Karl Gustav Jung; both created a good friendship that took them to the United States, where Freudian thought aroused great interest and enthusiasm.
They were the height of Freud‘s career that, in 1910, helped found the International Society of Psychoanalysis, which, years later, led him to break his friendship with Jung.
In 1923, Sigmund became ill, suffering from jaw cancer, and his medical problems worsened and lasted until the day of his death in 1939, yet his professional activity was always very energetic.
Fortunately, Sigmund left a lot of works for later and, although many of his laws were subsequently challenged, it is obvious that his brilliant mind has left the seed of what we know best in our brains and our deepest aspirations.
The human ego, the supermo and the he are highlighted as the most brilliant of his vast work, which has become an incredible and passionate journey through the human spirit, his studies on sexuality, psychoanalysis, neurosis, religion, fantasy, hysteria, morals, repression or family are great.
Sigmund Freud remains today one of the clearest and most daring minds of our civilization, that is why his work will never stop being studied and his ideas will always be a source of inspiration for future generations.