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150 pages
Published
April 16th 2013
by Candler Press
(first published January 1st 1963)
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Mar 19, 2011
Erik Graff
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This translation is that of the Standard Editon, Volume 20. It originally appeared in Volume 4 of Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen (Leipzig, Felix Meiner) in 1925. As much a history of the psychoanalytic movement as a biography, it does contain general information about Freud's background and motivations, but this self-portrayal is rather on the order of the kind of essay one would write in an admissions essay.
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Jun 29, 2015
culley
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I am surprised by how much I enjoyed and learned from this overview of Freud’s work. It is fascinating to note how much insight he had, and how much Jung really branches off Freud’s theories. It is a historical read, and it is important to be aware of our history. The index is great so you can easily reference most of his concepts by phrase. That said, what I found myself highlighting in the text were his moments of projection and self aggrandizement. At one point he blames his wife for postponi
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Фройд пише авотобиографията си през 1925. Заглавието може и да е подвеждащо - основно Фройд посочва основите на развитието на професионалния си живот като лекар, търсенията му и достигането до някой от основните теории и категории. Разглежда и реакцията срещу психоанализата през първите тридесет година на 19в. Интересна за всички: за лаиците които са чели за Фройд и нищо от него; за запознатите и с интерес към психологията - с погледа на самия човек зад иконата и за професионалистите - с пропомн
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Jun 30, 2015
Xitsuka
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Did I...no... did I read this out of coincidence, well not quite coincidence, on Valentine's day!?
Interesting little snippet - he does mention the start of his working with cocaine.
Not exactly what I expected. Like Freud already mentioned at the end of the book, he kept his private life for himself because he thought it was not relevant (at least for this book). So this 'autobiographical study' is actually a brief summary of his work, development of his ideas and (some) thought processes behind it. Not detailed enough to provide reader a deeper understanding of psychosis, neurosis, dreams etc.. and lacking almost all informations needed to understand Freud and his state of
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Short concise story of professional career of founder of psycho-analysis. You will not find some mysteries from his private life here - only elements from his professional career that led to establishment of psycho-analysis as a way of treating and better understanding of human psyche.[return][return]Very interesting, recommended.
Freud was a very honest writer. Although I disagree with him on most of his ideas, he is clear in laying out what he thinks and where he came up with the ideas. He was obviously a deep thinker, although I think in some cases far too deep.
Svart. Inbunden. Självbiografi.
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Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. He is regarded as one of the most influential - and controversial - minds of the 20th century.
Sigismund (later changed to Sigmund) Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor in the Czech Republic). His father was a merchant. The ...more
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Sigismund (later changed to Sigmund) Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor in the Czech Republic). His father was a merchant. The ...more
“But hypnotism had been of immense help in the cathartic treatment, by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within his reach knowledge which he did not possess in his waking life. It seemed no easy task to find a substitute for it. While I was in this perplexity there came to my help the recollection of an experiment which I had often witnessed while I was with Bernheim. When the subject awoke from the state of somnambulism, he seemed to have lost all memory of what had happened while he was in that state. But Bernheim maintained that the memory was present all the same; and if he insisted on the subject remembering, if he asseverated that the subject knew it all and had only to say it, and if at the same time he laid his hand on the subject's forehead, then the forgotten memories used in fact to return, hesitatingly at first, but eventually in a flood and with complete clarity. I determined that I would act the same way. My patients I reflected, must in fact 'know' all the things which had hitherto only been made accessible to them in hypnosis; and assurances and encouragement on my part, assisted perhaps by the touch of my hand, would, I thought, have the power of forcing the forgotten facts and connections into consciousness. No doubt this seemed a more laborious process than putting the patients into hypnosis, but it might prove highly instructive. So I abandoned hypnotism, only retaining my practice of requiring the patient to lie upon a sofa while I sat behind him, seeing him, but not seen myself.”
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