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(1920s) Sigmund Freud
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
People
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Sigmund Freud
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<p>OCTOBER 27, 1924)
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<p> Sigmund Freud was born of Jewish parents, at Freiburg, in
Moravia, 68 years ago. At the Sperl Gymnasium in Vienna, he was
always the head of his class. His preliminary education over,
he vacillated for some time between a career in law and one in
natural science, decided much against his will to become a
medical student and, after a journey to England, entered the
University of Vienna, where he did brilliantly.
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<p> After leaving the university, he worked for a time in a
children's clinic, then went to Paris and studied under Dr.
Charcot, the famed neurologist. It was here, to use a paradox,
that he became conscious of the unconscious mind and proceeded
to make it the sole subject of his studies.
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<p> It is difficult to analyze Freud's doctrine of psychoanalysis.
Is it a science or a philosophy? As there can be no science with
a philosophy, it is both. Freud says that injuries are caused
to the body by the mind (neurosis); not the conscious mind, for
no one is so foolish, but by the unconscious mind. The
psychoanalyst's job is, therefore, to bring into the conscious
mind those factors which are disturbing the unconscious mind and
so cause them to disappear.
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<p> The study of the problems of the unconscious mind led Freud
to dream interpretation, which was to become the principal
method of psychoanalysis. It was the quickest route of
reaching a patient's unconscious mind. Freud, in his
Interpretation of Dreams, goes deeply into the whole subject
and, as he almost always uses his own dreams as examples, the
book is also an autobiography. In theory, psychoanalysis is the
philosophy of the unconscious mind; in practice it is a means by
which mental disorders can be cured.</p>
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