what theories did Sigmund fraud have and what did it say?

Answer 1

He was very into 'the mothers breast'.... and is known for the discovery of pychoanalysis.

I'm afraid I only managed... Freud for beginners by R. Appignanesi & O. Zarate

Quite good though it's in comic strip form!!

Answer 2

Sigmund Freuds' theories were absolutely vast and couldn't possibly be answered on here to do them justice, although his theories were based on a rather small amount of case studies in comparison with most theories and also his client base were generally middle/upper class, therefore not really a cross section of the population.

Answer 3

Freud didn't exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus unconscious mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular. The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, what have you. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might today call "available memory:" anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring to mind. Now no-one has a problem with these two layers of mind. But Freud suggested that these are the smallest parts!

The largest part by far is the unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness, including many things that have their origins there, such as our drives or instincts, and things that are put there because we can't bear to look at them, such as the memories and emotions associated with trauma.

According to Freud, the unconscious is the source of our motivations, whether they be simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to deny or resist becoming conscious of these motives, and they are often available to us only in disguised form. We will come back to this
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Answer 4

Sigmund Freud was an example of one of the few geniuses in human history.

Sigmund Freud wrote a book published in 1900 entitled: THE ENTERPRETATION OF DREAMS and he put forward his view on childhood sexuality.

Well of course that was really a radical proposition back in 1900 and his book was essentially panned.

Yet all of a sudden during and after World War I, 1914 to 1919, there appeared all sorts of cases of battle fatigue, that is - symptoms without a cause. The doctors of the day 'rediscovered' Freud's book: the interpretation of dreams, and Dr. Sigmund Freud became famous almost overnight.

Dr. Freud was Jewish and born in Czechoslavakia, went to school in Austria and practice in Vienna. Dr. Freud spoke fluent Czechoslavakian, German, English, French, and Hebrew (how many languages do you speak FLUENTLY?). Einstein had trouble with German and spoke no other language, cause Einstein was not a genius.

Freud's theories of human sexuality are relevant today in proving that homosexuals are ABNORMAL and deviant.

Answer 5

Aim

The aim of the study was to report the findings of the treatment of a five-year-old boy for his phobia of horses.


One of the key themes of Freud’s work is the importance of the first few years of life in the subsequent development of personality. He also believed that children experience emotional conflicts, and their future adjustment depends on how well these conflicts are resolved.

Another theme within Freud’s work concerns the unconscious mind, which is the part of our mind which we are not aware of. Freud believed that the unconscious contains unresolved conflicts and has a powerful effect on our behaviour and experience. He argued that many of these conflicts will show up in our fantasies and dreams, but the conflicts are so threatening that they appear in disguised forms, in the shape of symbols.

The Oedipus complex is an important concept in Psychoanalysis and Freud believed that this case study of Little Hans supports this idea. Freud believed that children pass through five stages of development, known as the psychosexual stages because of Freud's emphasis on sexuality as the basic drive in development. These stages are: the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency period and finally the genital stage. It is the first three stages which take place in the first five years of life of a child.

The phallic stage, from three to five years old was the stage where the child's sexual identification was established. During this stage Freud hypothesised that a young boy would experience what he called the Oedipus complex. This would provide the child with highly disturbing conflicts, which had to be resolved by the child identifying with the same-sexed parent.

Freud thought that, during the phallic stage, the young boy develops an intense sexual love for his mother. Because of this, he sees his father as a rival, and wants to get rid of him. The father, however, is far bigger and more powerful than the young boy, and so the child develops a fear that, seeing him as a rival, his father will castrate him. Because it is impossible to live with the continual castration-threat anxiety provided by this conflict, the young boy develops a mechanism for coping with it, using a defence mechanism known as 'identification with the aggressor'. He stresses all the ways that he is similar to his father, adopting his father's attitudes, mannerisms and actions, feeling that if his father sees him as similar, he will not feel hostile towards him.

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Answer 6

Well, he came up with theories about the "Freudian Slip", when you mean to say one thing, but say another, much more truthful word similar to the first. Your question contains an excellent example :-)

Answer 7

a quick run down of Frued is

Id
Ego
SuperEgo

the 3 parts of our mental state

this is where and when psychologists started to explore the subconscious and is Frued's greatest gift to psychology.

other than that he's known for a horribly bias experiment involving housewives and thinking people wanted to sleep with their mothers.

Answer 8

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