Sigmund Freud's Theory Of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud is a psychiatrist born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia which is now known as Příbor, Czech Republic. He was born into a middle class Jewish Family, his parents were named Amalia and Jacob Freud. Sigmund’s father Jacob had already been married once before Amalia. He had two children from his first marriage and eight children from his marriage with Sigmund’s mother Amalia. Sigmund was the oldest of eight children. One of the son’s from Jacob Sigmund’s first marriage was very flirtatious with Sigmund’s mother, Amalia. Sigmund Freud’s life had a lot of anxieties. When Freud was only three years old, his father’s business had failed and they had gone bankrupt. When Sigmund turned four his family and himself left the town of Freiberg …show more content…
This is how psychoanalysis came about. Psychoanalysis is about the hidden things; the things you keep from yourself. It is the practice of talking. Psychoanalysis is the excavating of someone’s mind to change a person’s experience of suffering. Psychoanalysis makes the unconscious conscious. It is usually used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. Freud always said that he had more archeology books than psychology books. He said that the mind is structured in layers like archeological digs. The fragments Freud tries to put together are bits of memory, fantasies, and infant child wishes. These fragments can still be a part of someone’s adult life and talking about these experiences it can cause change in this person’s life. Instead of hypnotizing his patients he would make the patients lay down and relax and make them feel comfortable enough to talk about their past. In the time that Freud lived people that were diagnosed with illnesses were considered weird or outcasts. Freud wouldn 't look at them like that and would want to always treat them with …show more content…
The pleasure principle is the immediate gratification of our needs, wants and urges and if we don’t get them then we become sad or depressed. This helps us not think about the unpleasant things. For example, always going to hunger, thirst, and sex. Freud said that we should follow the pleasure principle but we should follow the reality principle. In the reality principle there is good and bad adaptation and the bad adaptations he would call neuroses. Even things that we don 't remember doing from being an infant affects us and how we behave. Freud had a theory he developed called psychosexual development. This is divided into six stages where the libido is fixated on a part of your body. Libido is our sexual desire. The first star is the oral stage. The oral stage occurs between the time of birth to the age of one and the libido is focused on the mouth. At this age infant get their pleasure from the mouth. From eating and being breast fed. For the infant to advance to the next stage they have to not be breast fed anymore. Freud believed that if there is trouble with this than the person tends to have trouble with dependency and