SOC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Joseph Breuer, American Sociological Review, Neurology
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Born to a galician jewish family in the city of pribor (currently part of the czech republic, in austro-hungarian empire. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist. He studied as a doctor of medicine at the university of vienna, in 1881. and he conducted research at vienna general hospital and became a professor in. Worked with joseph breuer, a distinguished austrian physician who made key impacts on neurophysiology. This work and his academic work as well as practices with patients helped him in formulating his ideas. He wrote about consciousness/unconsciousness, dreams, religion, sexuality and many other important topics: individuals are inclined to aggression. This is a basic human instinct: on the other hand, civilization is developing towards more progress. Key features of this is the unity of humankind: thus, individuals become in tension/conflict with civilization. (unity/progress vs. human aggression), humans internalize this tension. All the struggles in yourself reflects the outside struggle with civilization.
