SIGMUND FREUD

DIACONESCU ARIANA-IOANA
DROGOREANU ANDREEA-RUXANDRA
PROF.ERHAN SIMONA
TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 Biography

Psychoanalysis and
02 Neuroscience
03 THE INTERPRETATION OF
DREAMS

04 LIST OF BOOKS
05 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 01 BIOGRAPHY
Sigmund Freud was born to Ashkenazi
Jewish parents in the Moravian town of
Freiberg, in the Australian Empire, the first
of eight children.
Freud entered the University of Vienna at
age 17. He had planned to study law, but
joined the medical faculty at the university,
where his studies included philosophy,
physiology, and zoology.
In 1877, Freud moved to Ernst Brücke's
physiology laboratory where he spent six Freud's birthplace
years comparing the brains of humans and
other vertebrates with those of frogs and
invertebrates.
 02 Psychoanalysis and
Neuroscience:
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE MIND
AND BRAIN

o In 1895, Freud tried to integrate psychology and neurology in order to develop

a neuroscientific psychology. He could not see the progresses of neuroscience
and its fruitful dialogue with psychoanalysis. After years of investigations,
deriving from research and clinical work of the last century, we are observing
under a new light psychodynamic neuroscience.
o Psychoanalytic and neuroscientist approaches to understanding the
workings of the mind-brain are two very different fields, which
require a separation and distinction. Although neuroscience and
psychoanalysis share the same scientific object of interest, they use
different tools of investigation, methods and languages. Freud had
to abandon his dream of becoming a neuroscientist because the
technologies available at the time were insufficient to allow him to
pursue it.
o Freud developed these new beliefs during a time in which he
suffered from heart abnormalities, distressing nightmares, and
sadness, which he attributed to his father's death in 1896 and which
inspired him to "self-analyze" his own dreams and childhood
memories.
03 THE
INTERPRETATION OF
DREAMS
The Interpretation of Dreams is an 1899
book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of
psychoanalysis, in which the author
introduces his theory of the unconscious with
respect to dream interpretation.
Because of the book's length and complexity,
Freud also wrote an abridged version
called On Dreams.
● Dreams, in Freud's view, are formed as the result of two
mental processes. The first process involves unconscious
forces that construct a wish that is expressed by the dream,
and the second is the process of censorship that forcibly
distorts the expression of the wish.
● External inputs, subjective experiences, organic stimulation
within the body, and mental processes during sleep are all
origins of dreams, according to Freud 1900. Some of these
claims have been backed up by empirical evidence. Memory
consolidation, mood control, and the reception of external
stimuli all contribute to dream content, according to the self-
organization theory of dreaming. Memorial plate in commemoration
of the place where Freud began The
Interpretation of Dreams, near
Grinzing, Austria
04 LIST OF BOOKS
● Studies on Hysteria (1895)-The book described their
work and study of a number of individuals suffering
from hysteria and also introduces the use of
psychoanalysis as a treatment for mental illness.
● The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)-The
book takes a closer look at a number of deviations
that occur during everyday life including forgetting
names and errors in speech.
● Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
(1905)-In this books Freud observed how jokes,
much like dreams, could be related to unconscious
wishes or memories.
“The “We are what we are
because we have been
interpretation of what we have been,
dreams is the royal and what is needed
for solving the
road to a problems of human
knowledge of the life and motives is
not moral estimates
unconscious but more
activities of the knowledge.”
mind.”
 Bibliography
Frontiers | Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Bridge Bet
ween Mind and Brain | Psychology (frontiersin.org)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud