SIGN-283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Joseph Breuer, Neurophysiology, Intentionality
27 Jul 2020
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The journey on psychoanalysis starts with joseph breuer (1842-1925) and his hysteric patient bertha pappenheim (1859-1936). Carthartic method , that is the purification of emotions under hypnosis. But the promising cathartic method worked only with people who could be deeply hypothesized. Freud"s effort to solve this problem led to an expanded an ambitious theory, not just of hysteria but on human nature on general. Freud"s early life: sigmund freud: born on may 6th 1856 in freiberg, czech. Republic as the oldest of 8 children: the unusual constellation of his family may have sensitized. Freud to the vagaries of family relationships: enrolled in the university of vienna"s medical school in. Later he realized that the pressure was not necessary and the encouragement was enough. Patients occasionally brought up dream material and his former teacher meynert had taught that there were similarities between certain psychopathological conditions and dreams. These processes closely relate those freud had already postulated to underlie hysteria.
