Hysteria 2: Freud, Free Associationand Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Berggasse 19, Vienna (May 1938)

Joseph Breuer (1842-1925)

STUDIES ON HYSTERIA1895

Breuer and Freud

Anna O./ Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)

“TALKING CURE” or

“CHIMNEY SWEEPING”

Cathartic Method or Abreaction

• An original response to a traumatic event is suppressed, and the affect or emotion is not expressed

• The original affect then expresses itself in bodily symptoms, a process called hysterical conversion

• Cure consists of verbally reviewing the event, and releasing the original affect.

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

“Psychological Complex”

Uncovered with the use of association tests

with patients

Collaborated with Freud 1906-1912

Freud’s couch – for use of“free association” technique

Freud and his Couch

Active Repression: patient was motivated to actively repress traumatic information from consciousness.

Content of repressed material was often sexual.

Freud’s formulated the Seduction Theory in 1890s and then rejected it.

Freud’s Structural Model of the Mind, 1923

• ID: locus of fantasies, desire, unconscious

• EGO: emerged from Id, but had adapted to society

• EGO-IDEAL (Super-ego): source of repression, moral conscience

Manifest Content of Dream—its story-line, a conscious process

DREAM CENSOR—lets some information out, represses, disguises other information

Latent Content of Dream—dream thoughts, unconscious, often unacceptable wishes

Traumdeutung, Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

• Condensation: dream concentrates or compresses a number of different ideas into one; a composite picture.

• Displacement: transformation of dream thoughts into more acceptable thoughts in order to conceal unconscious meaning.

• Representation: all material gathered into a single situation in the dream.

• Symbolization: a certain set of symbols exist in unconscious, and become part of the dream.

International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar 1911

Freud’s Inner Circle (1922)