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Sigmund Freud ( FROYD; German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938, Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.

In founding psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, a sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later works, Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.

Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. It thus continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. In the words of W. H. Auden's 1940 poetic tribute to Freud, he had created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives."

Afhandlinger om behandlingsteknik

De seksten afhandlinger, der er medtaget i dette udvalg, stammer fra perioden 1890-1937 og udgør en stor del af, hvad Freud har skrevet om behandlingsteknik. Formålet med dem var at forklare grundprincipperne og grundbegreberne i den psykoanalytiske terapi for det stigende antal af kandidater, der søgte optagelse i den psykoanalytiske forening. Blandt de behandlede spørgsmål kan nævnes den analytiske grundregel (kravet om at sige alt), analytikerens neutralitet og status som ”spejl” for patienten, forekomsten af modstand, overføring og modoverføring i forholdet mellem analytiker og analysand, relationen mellem erindring og ageren samt alle praktiske problemer omkring betaling, anvendelse af divanen, analytikerens brug af notater, behandlingens varighed, analysens afslutning m.m.  De psykoterapeutiske teknikker, der eksisterer i dag, afviger på mange punkter fra den, som Freud udviklede og fremstillede i sine klassiske skrifter, men det er alligevel påfaldende, i hvor høj grad han stadig sætter dagsordenen i debatten om psykoterapi, og flere af bogens afhandlinger har opnået en klassikerstatus, der gør dem til naturlige læsestykker for alle, der professionelt eller blot af almindelig interesse beskæftiger sig med psykoterapi. Udgiverne har forsynet bogen med en generel indledning, korte introduktioner til de enkelte afhandlinger, noter samt bibliografi. Bogen genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere og udkom første gang på dansk i 1992.
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Printed pages238
Publish date16 Apr 2019
Published byGyldendal
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ISBN print9788741275703
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