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fun facts about sigmund freud, a thread 
tw drug mention / drugs / nsfw / sort of implied incest / sexual assault and rape / suicide mention
he wasnt addicted to cocaine but he did use it therapeutically. freud suggested that addictions were just substitutes for masturbation aka "the one great habit". cocaine use ruined his reputation rip
his real first name is actually sigismund
once said: "i heartily recommend the [nazi] gestapo to everyone"
(it was sarcastic ofc, freud was jewish and before he could leave nazi-occupied austria he had to sign a document saying he was treated with respect and given freedom, which is what this is from)
(it was sarcastic ofc, freud was jewish and before he could leave nazi-occupied austria he had to sign a document saying he was treated with respect and given freedom, which is what this is from)
his first extensive research was about eel testicles
freud probably cheated on his wife with her own sister (who lived with them) and the rumors were started by freud's coworker (who eventually took over psychoanalytic research once freud died) carl jung
his psychological view of humans probably was influenced by all the shakespeare plays he read
when he analyzed his own childhood he realized that the reason he hated his father was bc he was jealous that his mother loved his father more than she loved him (oedipus complex)
one of his theories is literally called "the seduction theory". the basis of it was that childhood sexual assault was fake and actually was just people repressing memories of childhood masturbation or having oedipal complex-like desires
there were rumors he had a thing with his close (guy) friend/colleague and freud said it was because of a combination of homoerotic attachment and "specifically jewish mysticism"
freud wanted to be a university prof so bad but because he was so controversial the government blocked it for years, but he ended up getting the job after one of his ex patients who was a baroness bribed the minister of education with an expensive painting
his case study on "little hans" concluded that the boys fear of horses (bc of a childhood incident) was because of emotional conflict abt masturbation, wanting to replace his father as his mothers sexual mate, and the birth of his little sister.
freud had some weird misogynist ideas but he did let women into his (kinda popular) psychoanalytical society in 1910 which is pretty progressive for the time period tbh
he had 6 kids and his daughter anna is considered one of two founders of psychoanalytic child psychology. and speaking of kids... he would use his kids as case studies for his own research
he theorized that everyone who was uncircumcised and afraid of castration were afraid because they feared circumcision and he concluded this was the "deepest unconscious root of anti-semitism"
one of his few patients was the daughter of napoleon
freuds works were part of the books burned by nazis in germany in 1933
freud had respects paid to him by hg wells, wh auden, virginia woolf, and salvador dali. his work at the time was also comparable to darwinism and marxism in terms of popularity
freud ended up dying of jaw cancer complicated by a big cancerous mouth tumor he had from smoking. his doctor never told him the tumor was cancerous bc he was afraid freud would kill himself
one of freuds psychosexual theories basically said everyone is at least a bit bisexual (bc of his idea of oral anal and phallic development stages birth to age 6)
freud thought the human psyche was conflicted by two things: sexual desire (eros) and wanting to die or be self destructive (thanatos)
he thought that orgasms from clit stimulation were childish and only for adolescents (he called them immature and masculine in nature) and that real grown up women had vaginal orgasms (which were more mature)
end of thread! TLDR freud was weird as fuck but in some (very few) ways his work had valid points.
heres the auden poem about him: https://poets.org/poem/memory-sigmund-freud
heres the auden poem about him: https://poets.org/poem/memory-sigmund-freud
