Freud’s Artichoke

Key Terms from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams

• Dream thoughts (p. 211)• Dream content (p. 211)• “The Dream-Work” (pp. xiv & 211-212)• Free association (p. 81)• Condensation (pp. 213 – 232)• Mediating common factors (p. 226)• Displacement (pp. 232 - 236)• Representational resources (pp. 236 – 249)• Over-determination (p.234)• Wish-fulfillment (p. 96 and everywhere!)

1856: Born, Moravia (eventually Czech, but then part of the Austrian Empire, stretched as far as Italy during the time), in Freiberg, 240 km from Vienna

1860: Vienna1870s-80s: zoology – physiology – neurology 1880s: General Hospital in Vienna; research on cocaine1884 Monograph on cocaine—survey of its effects and possible

uses1886: Marries Martha Bernays; begins private practice1887 Meets Wilhelm Fliess1895 Studies in Hysteria (with Breuer)1899-1900 The Interpretation of Dreams (also the date of Max Planck’s lecture on quantum theory — revolutions in

understanding the physical and mental worlds)1902 Wednesday Psychological Society

1905 Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora) and Three Essays on Sexuality1906 Begins to correspond with Jung1907 Meets Jung1910 International Psychoanalytical Association founded1913 Break with Jung1916 Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis1920 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and Beyond

the Pleasure Principle1923 The Ego and the Id1923 Tumor removed; begin of painful life and decline1929 Civilization and its Discontents1938 Moses and Monotheism1938 Emigrated to England, after Nazi persecution1938: Dalí visits 1939: Freud dies

Jonathan Lear, Diagram of Freud’s “Botanical Monograph” Dream, in the “manner of an inverted artichoke.”

Brett Nitchke, Diagram of Dream Material Associations (“in the manner of an inverted artichoke”), February 3, 2005.

Key Terms from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams

• Dream thoughts (p. 211)• Dream content (p. 211)• “The Dream-Work” (pp. xiv & 211-212)• Free association (p. 81)• Condensation (pp. 213 – 232)• Mediating common factors (p. 226)• Displacement (pp. 232 - 236)• Representational resources (pp. 236 – 249)• Over-determination (p.234)• Wish-fulfillment (p. 96 and everywhere!)