FREUD'S SELF-ANALYSIS
Freud's self-analysis started in the mid 1890's and reached its climaxes between 1895 and 1910. In certain authors’ opinions, it was continued up to his death in 1939. Nevertheless, we have to set a clear boundary between the time of his productive, creative stage and his profession as a psychoanalyst. The first phase was full of unexpected aspects and inventiveness. It included: 1) his routine self- analysis where he performed checks of his complexes—those emotional ideas or impulses that had been banished from his conscious mind, but continued to influence his behavior; 2) the analysis of his excessive, obsessional fears that resulted in his identification and definition of the "Oedipus Complex;" 3) the mapping of the …show more content…
The important point of this volume was that Freud transitioned from the clinical to normal life—it proved neurotic features were present not only in sickness, but also in health. Therefore, for the first time in the history of psychopathology, Freud “overruled the difference between pathology and health.” That made it possible to apply psychoanalysis to so-called "normal life." The difference was in the “degree.” “Repression” (the anxiety associated with “forbidden” thoughts exiled to the unconscious) was already greater in those cases in treatment. In Freud’s view, this repression was mostly used to banish magnified sexual …show more content…
A brilliant student, he finished at the top of his class seven out of eight years. Five sisters and a brother were born by the time he was ten, but in a growing family constellation, the first-born son remained the brightest star. When he complained that his sister's piano playing interfered with his concentration, his mother stopped the piano lessons. As an adult, Freud went to see his mother, Amalia, every Sunday, always bringing flowers, delighting in her praise, and making much of her devotion. Freud said she called him “mein goldener Sigi” (my golden Sigi). It was a wishful fantasy. If you created an image of your mother that didn't correspond to reality; if you idealized her, then you didn't really want to know who she was. So if you really didn't want to know who she was, then there was the possibility that you wouldn't comprehend any other
Freud's self-analysis started in the mid 1890's and reached its climaxes between 1895 and 1910. In certain authors’ opinions, it was continued up to his death in 1939. Nevertheless, we have to set a clear boundary between the time of his productive, creative stage and his profession as a psychoanalyst. The first phase was full of unexpected aspects and inventiveness. It included: 1) his routine self- analysis where he performed checks of his complexes—those emotional ideas or impulses that had been banished from his conscious mind, but continued to influence his behavior; 2) the analysis of his excessive, obsessional fears that resulted in his identification and definition of the "Oedipus Complex;" 3) the mapping of the …show more content…
The important point of this volume was that Freud transitioned from the clinical to normal life—it proved neurotic features were present not only in sickness, but also in health. Therefore, for the first time in the history of psychopathology, Freud “overruled the difference between pathology and health.” That made it possible to apply psychoanalysis to so-called "normal life." The difference was in the “degree.” “Repression” (the anxiety associated with “forbidden” thoughts exiled to the unconscious) was already greater in those cases in treatment. In Freud’s view, this repression was mostly used to banish magnified sexual …show more content…
A brilliant student, he finished at the top of his class seven out of eight years. Five sisters and a brother were born by the time he was ten, but in a growing family constellation, the first-born son remained the brightest star. When he complained that his sister's piano playing interfered with his concentration, his mother stopped the piano lessons. As an adult, Freud went to see his mother, Amalia, every Sunday, always bringing flowers, delighting in her praise, and making much of her devotion. Freud said she called him “mein goldener Sigi” (my golden Sigi). It was a wishful fantasy. If you created an image of your mother that didn't correspond to reality; if you idealized her, then you didn't really want to know who she was. So if you really didn't want to know who she was, then there was the possibility that you wouldn't comprehend any other