Psychopathology of Everyday Life

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<p>For many, this is the book that determined the beginning of psychoanalysis. In <strong>The Interpretation of Dreams</strong> Freud puts forward the theory that our dreams may be the way in which our non-conscious thoughts emerge to our consciousness, through messages emitted with the use of symbols.</p> <p>In this case dreams would be the manifestation of repressed desires that come to light when we sleep.</p> <p>In this work Freud presented a mechanism to be able to interpret the images and contents. It was also in this work that the concept of the «ego» appears for the first time.</p>

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<p><strong>Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality</strong> is considered one of Freud’s most relevant texts, since it embodies the concepts that make up the Freudian theory of psychosexual development.</p> <p>This group of three essays is very interesting and useful to comprehensively understand the legacy of the creator of psychoanalysis.</p> <p>Freud used the theme of sexuality as the center of all psychological gear, which caused serious differences with several of his colleagues.</p>

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<p>Sigmund Freud wrote <strong>Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva</strong> in 1906 and it was published in May 1907. It can be regarded as his interpretation of the 1903 novel Gradiva by the German writer Wilhelm Jensen, which the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung recommended to Freud.</p> <p>In this novel, a young man named Norbert Hanold, while visiting a museum, is struck by the beauty of a bas-relief of a young Roman girl, whom he calls “Gradiva”. As the days go by, his thoughts are invaded by the image of this woman, dreaming of her and becoming obsessed with the idea of meeting her.</p> <p>It is believed that the reason for Jung’s recommendation to Freud is based on the fact that Gradiva deals with the subject of dreams, and it is well known that the Austrian psychoanalyst was interested in the role of dreams in the psyche of people, as he shows in The Interpretation of Dreams.</p>

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<p>In October 1909, Freud published in Germany <strong>Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis</strong>, also known as the Rat Man case history, a nickname Freud gave him because the patient suffered from nightmares related to rats.</p> <p>The intention of the publication of this work was to demonstrate that psychoanalysis could indeed achieve effective therapeutic results (or so he stated), being under pressure since he had previously been unable to publish any successful results of psychoanalysis. In this way, he was finally able to demonstrate to the world his therapeutic capabilities.</p> <p>The patient, whose identity is still speculated today, was in treatment for about 6 months starting in October 1907. It is worth mentioning that the first 3 months the treatment was regular and daily, and the second trimester was sporadic and irregular.</p>

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<p><strong>Totem and Taboo</strong> is a book out of the ordinary among Freud’s works. In it, the Viennese physician deals with historically rooted cultural and social phenomena. It covers topics related to religion, rituals and archeology.</p> <p>It is a book of great interest in the anthropological field, since in essence the book tries to explain the origins of the human species through psychoanalytic interpretations.</p>