Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud Compared

Shabnam Shukrullah Meyer's THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION In the excerp from the novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer’s reveals the true nature of the characters detective Sherlock Holmes and the psychologist Sigmund Freud. Although, both of the characters shared similarities and differences in their professional methods that they used in their career, the two characters were both monumental figures that changed the human history through their brilliance in work. First, there are many similarities between the characters Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud. For example, both Holmes and Freud smoked tobacco preferably both tried cocaine while it was legal during the 19th century. While, Holmes used pipe for a way to get away from his problems, Freud smoked cigar for research and experiment. Both of the characters had deductive personalities, and were genius at their work. Through using “logical reasoning” both could find quick answers to most critical questions. The two characters had mindset that was too ahead for others; for instance, Holmes developed criminal investigation and forensic techniques that no other detective used. Similarly, Freud expanded and “effected the fields of psychology and psychiatry…moving both fields from the darkness of laboratories…into light of popular awareness” cleverly traversing the fields of medicine. There are also some ways that Holmes and Freud were different, starting with their homelands. Holmes and Freud were from two different countries; Holmes was from England while Freud was from Vienna. Freud worked indoors as he was Austrian neurologist who worked on his most influential theories. Unlike Freud, Holmes worked outside as he did his detective job finding criminals. Another major difference between these two characters was that Freud investigated cocaine for research while Holmes had raging cocaine addiction as his good old friend, Dr. Watson observes his critical issue asserts
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