The peculiarities of Sigmund Freud
He was, in fact, a man more hated and despised than admired in his day, other neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists saw him as a strange researcher who endangered the theories that had remained until now, his discoveries about child sexuality, and in particular the Oedipus complex, have placed him at the center of the scandal.
- Victorian morality was emphasized.
- The Humanities were still strongly imbued with prejudices.
- Much more than today.
- That is why Freud’s theories were considered suspicious.
- Even absurd.
- The problem for his contemporaries was that this Viennese doctor had strongly founded assumptions and.
- Above all.
- He cured in his office.
- What others could not heal.
Not only was his thinking unusual, but Sigmund Freud was full of singularities in his way of being. Is this a list of some of them?
Freud had an unexplained fear of number 62, I never stayed in a hotel with this number and avoided it every time I found it.
The phobias of the first psychoanalyst in history did not stop there, I was also terrified of ferns.
Freud’s customs were very strict. I had lunch every day at one
He loved meat and hated chicken. Once off the table, he went for a two-kilometre walk through the same usual streets and along the way collected mushrooms.
Freud was a compulsive smoker. This was certainly why he developed aggressive throat cancer that led to his death.
He only had two suits, three mutes of underwear and three pairs of shoes. He didn’t do it out of greed, it just seemed like a banal subject.
“He loved dogs. He had a pet Chow Chow, whom he nicknamed Jofi. He became an assistant during his analysis sessions.
It had a calming effect on patients and learned to calculate the time of the consultation. When it was recomposed, Freud learned that the section was finished.
Sigmund Freud learned the Spanish language only to give himself the pleasure of reading Don Quixote de La Mancha in the original language, he was a fervent admirer of Cervantes.
He was a card addict and had a large collection of old figurines, he always went to antique shops to buy a piece he didn’t have.
The first edition of? The interpretation of dreams? Only 600 copies. The publisher took 13 years to sell them.
Freud escaped from social life. He was not very interested in parties and meetings, however, he often encountered a circle of close friends at Café Landtmann, where he was still sitting in the same place.
Freud won a literature award in Germany in 1930, cultivated good literature and tried to write with beauty and creativity.
Assisted death requested because the pain caused by cancer has become intolerable. His trusted doctor injected him with morphine to help him die.
One of the craters of the moon takes its name from Freud in honor of this doctor who revolutionized all existing theories about the human mind.
Image courtesy of Enrico