FREUD - A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYSIS
Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repression', 'identification', 'projection', 'acting out', the 'pleasure principle', the 'reality principle', 'defence-mechanism' - are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary. Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment, rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate and provoke long after the death of its originator. Its central hypothesis, that we live in conflict with ourselves and seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality, did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination and the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique - in particular, from the confessions produced by 'free-association' in Freud's consulting room. Written during the turmoil of the First World War, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University, but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world.
SIGMUND FREUD
Sigismund Freud 1856 - 1939 , better known as Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. If some of his ideas, always controversial, have now fallen out of favour, it does not diminish the impact that his thinking has had on psychology, therapy and, indeed, culture in general. His favourite book, 'The Interpretation of Dreams', remains the most significant work on the subject matter, even if some of the underlying theories have been discredited.
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FREUD SIGMUND
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 fue un neurólogo austríaco y el fundador del psicoanálisis, una revolucionaria teoría y método terapéutico para explorar el inconsciente humano. Nació en Freiberg, en el Imperio Austrohúngaro actual República Checa , y más tarde se trasladó con su familia a Viena, donde desarrolló la mayor parte de su carrera. Freud propuso que gran parte del comportamiento humano está motivado por deseos inconscientes, especialmente de naturaleza sexual y agresiva. Introdujo conceptos fundamentales como el ello, el yo y el superyó, así como el famoso complejo de Edipo. Su obra más influyente, La interpretación de los sueños 1899 , sentó las bases del psicoanálisis como disciplina. Aunque sus teorías han sido ampliamente debatidas y en parte superadas por la psicología moderna, su impacto en la cultura, la literatura y el pensamiento del siglo XX es incuestionable. Murió en Londres en 1939, tras exiliarse debido al ascenso del nazismo.
