Art History - Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was one of few amazing physicians. He was born in 1856 in a small town in Freiberg, where he then moved to Vienna around the age of four (Freud X). When Freud was seventeen years old he began his scholarly career at the University of Vienna, eight years later he completed with a degree in physiology and neurology (Freud X). Freud was the father to many great theories and ideas that are still used today in psychology. Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, came up with the model of the mind, the structure of personality, psychosexual stages and developmental processes, defense mechanisms, and had a way of analyzing dreams. Freud was also an influential contribution to surrealism art; having impacted artist like Salvador Dali and Michael Proust. Sigmund Freud truly impacted the world in many different ways and is still greatly appreciated in this modern day. Sigmund Freud is most known for being the father of Psychoanalysis, “a therapeutic method by which repressed desires are brought to a conscious level to reveal the sources of emotional disturbances” (Fiero 381). Freud used free association with his patients; by building a trusting relationship, allowing them to open up their minds letting out all repressed feelings, which allow patients to gain insights to their problems, as well as taking away the resistance factor that patients hold on to so tightly (Myers 494). By Freud using psychoanalysis he allowed his patients to take charge for their own development, “giving them insight into the origin of their disorders” (Myers 494). Using psychoanalysis Freud had other steps that influenced his therapy with patents, helping him help them figure out their problems and or disorders. One influential step Freud used for all patients is referred to as “The Model of the Mind” or “Iceberg Model”. This model is broken up into the conscious mind, preconscious mind, and the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is ones current momentary

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