SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939)
Sigmund freud was an Austrian doctor who explored the working of the human mind. He developed psychoanalysis, which is both a way treating neurosis, or mental disturbances and a theory of how the mind works.
Freud was born in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. When he was four, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Freud entered the university of Vienna when he was 17. One day he attended a lecture on nature.He was so fascinated that he made up his mind to become a doctor.
Freud became interested in diseases of the mind. In 1885, he won a fellowship to study in paris under the guidance of a doctor. Jean martin chariot, who was famous for his work on this kind of diaeases. The next year, freud returned to vienna, married ang began to treat diseases of the mind.
Freud ha great insight into the human mind. He thougt thaht every person is born with certain needs, he said, are unconscious-people are jot a ware of thinking a bout such needs. Freud named the part of mind controlling these instinctive unconscioud needs the id, and said that persons id operates to give pleasure.
Freud also said that, as we grow up from infancy, we acquire an ego, a collection of memories and thoughts that help us deal with the word around us. We continue to grow, and from the teaching of our family and society we develop a superego a conscience. Our superego and id often push in opposite ways. Our ego ussualy reduces this conflict by helping us to get pleasure without hurting our conscience.
But if a person unconscious thoughts and needs are very strong, they may causes unusual behavior, or neurosis. Freuds treatment for neurosis is psychoanalysis 9 examination of the mind ) a method for uncovering these unconscious thoughts adn understanding how they cause problems, freud thoughts that dreams- even dreams that seem to make no sense are a very important clue to understanding the mind.
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