5+-+Freud

Sigmund Freud By: April Vivino and Anna Wilson
 * Early life:
 * From Austrian- Jewish family in Vienna
 * Had medical practice in Vienna where he displayed an interest in research for psychic disorders
 * Early thoughts:
 * In mid 1890s he found most of his patients associated their neurotic symptoms with earlier experiences from childhood
 * The sexual matters were significant in their problems and were often from their childhoods
 * In 1897 he formulated his theory of infantile sexuality
 * Sexual drive and energy exist in infants and do not just emerge during puberty
 * Came up with theory about dreams
 * Believes dreams allow unconscious wishes, desires, and drives that had been excluded from everyday consciousness to enjoy freer play in the mind


 * Later thoughts:
 * Comes up with terms ID, superego, and ego
 * ID: a moral instinctual driving instincts for sexual gratification; also the unconscious level
 * Superego: external moral expectations imposed on a person by society; also the preconscious level
 * Ego: mediates between the impulses of the ID and the limits of the superego
 * Divisions in psychoanalysts:
 * Carl Jung
 * The biggest rival of Freud
 * Theory:
 * Believed human subconscious contains inherited memories from previous generations:
 * These memories along with the experience of the person constitute a person’s soul
 * Impact:
 * The psychoanalytic movement impacted and influenced intellectual life of the 20th century
 * Fields such as anthropology, sociology, psychology were heavily influenced by this movement