1. Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen
Sigmund Freud
Janine Holtmann and Anke Berndzen

2. Short Biography May 6, 1856 Parents: Jakob and Amalia Freud
Sigismund Shlomo Freud
Parents: Jakob and Amalia Freud
Seven siblings
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3. Short Biography 1859 Father lost his job, family settles in Vienna
1873 Successful graduation (Matura), medicine study at Vienna University
1876  Freud joins Ernst Brücke’s physiological laboratory
1881  Doctor of Medicine
1884  Investigation of cocaine
1890  Examination of the sexual lives of his patients - Psychoanalysis
1897  theory of the “Oedipus Complex”
1930 Freud received the Goethe Prize

4. Personal problems psychosomatic disorders exaggerated fears of dying
sexual feelings for his mother
Theory of the “Oedipus Complex”

5. His Death
In September 1939 his doctor and friend Max Schur assisted him in suicide.
three doses of morphine over many hours
Freud died on September 23, 1939.

6. Id, Ego and Superego Mental activity exist at three levels:
Id: centre of our primitive instincts
Ego: develops out of the Id as the child grows
Superego: highest state at which we have arrived in our evolutionary "progress"
overseer, conscious

7. Freud and cocaine early user and proponent of cocaine
He wrote several articles on the antidepressant qualities of the drug
Freud felt that cocaine would work as a panacea for many disorders
"On Coca“
“The Cocaine Incident”
Jürgen von Scheidt speculated that most of Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct of his cocaine use.