Freud For Beginners

Freud for Beginners
In this book we find the story of Freud's life and ideas from his birth and his
career as a doctor, his first trips to the unknown parts of his psyche, and the
progressive evolution of his theories on the unconscious, dreams and sexuality.
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Freud began his studies in clinical medicine. His particular interests were
histology and neurophysiology, which was based on the study of tissues and
the nervous system. He wanted to be a man of science, not a doctor. Freud
carried out research on nerve cells; but before this Freud had further
training in clinical medicine at the Vienna General Hospital. Freud worked in a
psychiatric clinic for 5 months with Theodor Meynert.
He studied the effects of cocaine, in April 1886 he began a private practice as

a neuropathologist and encountered his first hysterical patients. Freud reads
his work on human hysteria to the Vienna Medical Society; many thought that
it was nonsense and that Charcot had instilled and induced him on a bad path,
since they thought that hysteria was only for women, due to its Greek
meaning: uterus, womb.
Freud and Breur worked together for a book of studies on Hysteria,

establishing that hysterics suffer from reminiscences because they have
suffered some trauma. For the first time Freud used a couch which he called
the Forehead Pressure Technique. He proposed the Seduction Theory; which
revealed that the children had suffered sexual seductions by one of the
parents or other adults.
In 1896 Freud coined the term psychoanalysis: free association technique,

patients must feel free to express what they think or feel.
Freud had suffered from neurosis for approximately 10 years. On October 23,
Freud's father died and that is when he began to write the interpretation of
dreams, for example when he dreamed of his mother lying in bed and that
some characters with beaks were carrying her; The interpretation was that
the anguish of his mother's death hid a death wish against his father.
Freud mentions a case of an obsessive neurotic, in which the patient could not
go out because he was afraid of murdering anyone he encountered, but the
situation was not really that; But the patient wanted to kill his father because
there was incest with his mother; This is the fact of falling in love with the
mother and feeling jealous of the father.
The importance of dream analysis: Every dream is the fulfillment of desires,

according to Freud there are symbols which Freudians named.
Objects of penetration such as: sword, gun, umbrella, snakes are symbols of
the penis and objects that are shaped like containers such as: boxes, purses,
caves are symbols of the vagina. I call them displacement since they also occur
in neurosis: emotional energy moves towards the symptoms and this happens
unconsciously.
Freud reaches his second discovery, he was not only interested in the sick
mind, he intended to offer a theory about the human mind. The psyche was
divided into three parts:
1. The conscious: They are the ideas that are around us

2. The preconscious: contains all the ideas and memories that can be made
conscious. It is the secondary process which I call the Reality Principle,
which was science.
3. The unconscious: are desires, desires, or impulses of a sexual nature and
sometimes destructive. The fulfillment of these primary desires I call
the Pleasure Principle.
Publishes three essays on sexual theory; The enjoyment of sex is not so simple
or it is just having genital intercourse; On the contrary, it should include the
use of the mouth and anus, people should touch each other, look at each other,
show parts of their body, etc.
The sexual history of an individual begins from birth. Mentions stages of
Psychosexual development:
* Oral: it is the beginning of pleasure because it is the first place where you
experience it.
* Anal: controls the urge to go to the bathroom.
* Phallic: it is at 3 to 4 years old, when the child discovers masturbation or
stimulation of the genitals.
* Latency: is from 6 years to p uberty.

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He studied the effects of cocaine, in April 1886 he began a private practice as

Freud and Breur worked together for a book of studies on Hysteria,

In 1896 Freud coined the term psychoanalysis: free association technique,

The importance of dream analysis: Every dream is the fulfillment of desires,

1. The conscious: They are the ideas that are around us

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