Sigmund Freud

Life and Works

English Seminar
Titu Maiorescu University, Faculty of
Psychology
Olteanu Mihaela (Popa) Grupa 5
Petrariu Ramona Mihaela Grupa 5
Manta Ioana (Vasluian) Grupa 4

Freud Life and Works

Freud Life
Born Sigismund Schlomo Freud in
Freiburg, Moravia
Golden Siggie his mothers
favourite
The family moved to Vienna
Sigismund became Sigmund
1886 - medical degree
Married with Martha Bernays
1908 established the
Psychoanalytic Society
During WWII the Nazis publicly
burned his work
He died by assisted suicide after
enduring mouth cancer

The interpretation of
dreams
Is an 1899 book, in wich
Freud introduces his
theory of the
unconcious with respect
to dream interpretation.
1900- Freud developed
a topographical model
of the mind, whereby
he described the
features of the minds
structure and function.

Title page of the original German

edition

Memorial plate in comemoration of the

place where Freud began The
Interpretation of dreams, near Grizing,
Austria

The Psychopathology of
Everyday Life
Is a 1901 work by Sigmund Freud
based on Freuds researches
from 1897
Freud believed that various
deviations from the stereotypes
of everyday conduct - seemingly
unintended reservation,
forgetting words, random
movements and actions - are a
manifestation of unconscious
thoughts and impulses.
Explaining "wrong actions" with
the help of psychoanalysis, just
as the interpretation of dreams,
can be effectively used for
diagnosis and therapy.

Cover of the German

Three Essays on the Theory

of Sexuality
Is a 1905 work by
Sigmund Freud
which advanced his
theory of sexuality,
in particular its
relation to
childhood.
The book covered
three main areas:
sexual perversions;
childhood sexuality
and puberty.

The Sexual Aberrations

Freud began by distinguishing between the
sexual object and the sexual aim.
The sexual object is defined as a desired object.
The sexual aim is defined as what acts are
desired with said object.
Freud makes the point that people who are
behaviorally abnormal are always sexually
abnormal in his experience but that many
people who are normal behaviorally otherwise
are sexually abnormal also.

Infantile Sexuality
Argues that children have sexual urges,
from which adult sexuality only gradually
emerges.
Looking at children, Freud identified many
forms of infantile sexual emotions,
including thumb sucking, autoeroticism,
and sibling rivalry.

The Transformations of
Puberty
Freud formalised the distinction between
the 'fore-pleasures' of infantile sexuality
and the 'end-pleasure' of sexual
intercourse.
He also demonstrated how the adolescent
years consolidate sexual identity under the
dominance of the genitals.

Civilization and Its

Discontents
Written in 1929, and first
published in German in
1930.
Freud's theory is based on
the notion that humans
have certain characteristic
instincts that are
immutable.
Most notably, the desires
for sex, and the
predisposition to violent
aggression towards
authority figures and
sexual competitors, who
obstruct the individual's
path to gratification.
Front cover, German
edition