excuse my ignorance but who was sigmund freud?

Question

and was he attached to his father

Answer 1

I didn't know who Freud was either until I was 18 years old and stuck out in the middle of nowhere in an old farmhouse pretty much all by myself for the winter. I got so bored (multiple blizzards, pregnant and no tv.) that I curled up with a thick book that I found in the attic. The book was Vol. I of a collection of everything Sigmund Freud ever wrote, his diaries, journals, letters, etc. It was absolutely FASCINATING! The book read like a diary. As I read Freud's own words about his daily life and struggles and genius, his thoughts and fears and ideas and pain and loves through all the years of his career, it was like I really got to know the gentleman personally. I read more and more, eventually all 23 (? ) volumes that I found in a library. It was the most brilliant winter of my life, that winter with Sigmund Freud. I'd do my chores and then return as quickly as I could to the "story" he was telling me. I'd open the book and . . . just like a movie, suddenly I was there, back then, in Freud's tangled 19th century world, in Freud's tangled mind, waiting for Freud's beloved colleagues to visit him and discuss a patient's tangled mind. When I studied Freud in college later on, I had no trouble understanding his concepts, and not because I remembered them from his writings, but because I really understood Freud, the man, from reading his own personal thoughts and words. I never read biographies now, only autobiographies. You learn and glean so much more from the horse's mouth, so to say, than from the abstractions written about someone later. I highly recommend curling up with Herr Freud some winter!

Answer 2

Well, people already said who he was, now i can walt about his relationships with father. He had a father he admired, and kept on telling that he was a great person. After his death, Freud fell into a crisis and began a self psychoanalysis, after which he defined the Oedipus complex, falling in love with your own mother and hating your father because he owns the mother at age of about 5. He experienced the crisis, because he couldnt understand his feelings for his father, because he hated and adored him at the same time. There surely was a psychological attachement to his father, but if you are asking about physical one, then no, there wasnt any.

Answer 3

May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. The theories distinctive of this school generally include the following hypotheses:

Human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire.
The psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas.
Unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips"), and symptoms.
Unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses.
Neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment.
The name Freud is generally pronounced /fɹɔɪd/ in English and /frɔɪt/ in German. He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been tremendously influential in the popular imagination – popularizing such notions as the unconscious, defence mechanisms, freudian slips, and dream symbolism – while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature, film, marxist and feminist theories, literary criticism, philosophy, and of course, psychology.

Answer 4

Sigmund Freud (IPA: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏ̯t]) (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. The theories distinctive of this school generally include the following hypotheses:

* Human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire.

* The psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas.

* Unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips"), and symptoms.

* Unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses.

* Neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment.

The name Freud is generally pronounced /fɹɔɪd/ in English and /frɔɪt/ in German. He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been tremendously influential in the popular imagination – popularizing such notions as the unconscious, defence mechanisms, freudian slips, and dream symbolism – while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature, film, marxist and feminist theories, literary criticism, philosophy, and of course, psychology.

Answer 5

I can relate, because I have clinical depression. However, that's not the only reason I disagree with a lot of Freud's theories. Even though he seems to emphasize repressed sexual desires, when it comes to the subconscious mind, dreams, and etc I have to agree with him. (Also, I do like his idea of the id, ego, and superego.)

Answer 6

Freud was the famous psychologist. And I have no idea if he was attatched to his father. I didn't think that was physically possible but who knows?

Answer 7

A practising physician,specialist in the treatment of nervous diseases,and the founder of psychoanalysis.he was the one who developed the concept of the unconscious.

Answer 8

a famous psychologist.

he created the phrase "Freudian Slip" for saying that all males want to have sex with their mother.

i don't know if he was attached to his father or not.

Answer 9

Zig-ee was the father of PSCHOLOGY and was attached to his mother, not his father.

Answer 10

he was a psychoanalyst...look at wikipedia.org