Freud wrote that changing homosexuality was difficult and possible only under unusually favourable conditions, observing that “ in general to undertake to convert a fully developed homosexual into a heterosexual does not offer much more prospect of success than the reverse .” Success meant making heterosexual feeling possible, not eliminating homosexual feelings.

In 1935, Freud wrote to a mother who had asked him to treat her son a letter that later became famous:

In 1951, the mother who wrote to Freud asking him to treat her son sent Freud's response to the American Journal of Psychiatry, in which it was published.

The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who developed the discipline of psychoanalysis, wrote extensively about dream theories and interpretations.

Freud wrote several important essays on literature, which he used to explore the psyche of authors and characters, to explain narrative mysteries, and to develop new concepts in psychoanalysis ( for instance, Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva and his influential readings of the Oedipus myth and Shakespeare's Hamlet in The Interpretation of Dreams ).

Freud himself wrote of " das Es ," " das Ich ," and " das Über-Ich "— respectively, " the It ", " the I ", and the " Over-I " ( or " I above "); thus to the German reader, Freud's original terms are more or less self-explanatory.

After publishing the case notes in 1909, Freud wrote a letter to Carl Jung, indicating that the Rat Man's problems still remained, despite Freud having claimed full recovery.

* The famous Viennese novelist Stefan Zweig wrote a biography " The Mental Healers: Mesmer, Freud, Mary Baker Eddy.

" The book won him professional recognition, including from Freud, who wrote to congratulate him and arranged for his appointment to the executive committee of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

Anna Freud ( 1895 – 1982 ), Freud's daughter – whom Jones had contacted about Reich's desire to move to England – wrote that Reich " flies off into a world of his own ," and that " this will end in sickness.

Freud wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in 1899: ' Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness '.

In March 1927 Zweig wrote to Freud asking permission to dedicate his new book to Freud.

He also wrote a number of biographies of a diverse range of historical figures, including: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, J. B. S.

Freud wrote that ' Eckstein deliberately treated her patient in such a manner as not to give her the slightest hint of what would emerge from the unconscious and in the process obtained from her ... the identical scenes with the father '.

Jung wrote to Sigmund Freud of “ a very pleasant and perhaps valuable acquaintance, our first Italian, a Dr. Assagioli from the psychiatric clinic in Florence ”.

Later however, this same Roberto Assagioli ( 1888 – 1974 ) wrote a doctoral dissertation, “ La Psicosintesi ,” in which he began to move away from Freud ’ s psychoanalysis towards what he called psychosynthesis:

Freud wrote in The Interpretation of Dreams that many features of dreams were usually " overdetermined ," in that they were caused by multiple factors in the life of the dreamer, from the " residue of the day " ( superficial memories of recent life ) to deeply repressed traumas and unconscious wishes, these being " potent thoughts ".

Throughout her married life, she engaged in affairs or / and correspondence with the German journalist Georg Lebedour, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, on whom she wrote an analytical memoir, the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Viktor Tausk, among others.

Interestingly, Jung saw the Ego ( which Freud wrote about in German literally as the " I ", one's conscious experience of oneself ) as a complex.

While at the Sorbonne, he wrote three works that cemented his reputation: Fallible Man and The Symbolism of Evil published in 1960, and Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation published in 1965.

Because the book is very long and complex, Freud wrote an abridged version called On Dreams.

Freud wrote:

Freud was off base when he wrote that.

A biography in Swedish on Lou Salomé, which also covers her relationship with Paul Rée, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud was edited in 2008 on Mita bokförlag by the Swedish author Mirjam Tapper.

" For instance ," said Dr. Joseph Merlino, Senior Editor of the book Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius, " that ... I'm a cross-dresser and I don't want to keep it confined to my circle of friends, or my party circle, and I want to take that to my wife and I don't understand why she doesn't accept it, or I take it to my office and I don't understand why they don't accept it, then it's become a problem because it's interfering with my relationships and environment.

He identified a discrepancy between early and later Freudian theory: namely that prior to World War I, Freud described human drives as a tension between desire and repression, but after the war's conclusion, he framed human drives as a struggle between biologically-universal Life and Death ( Eros and Thanatos ) instincts.

* Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience ; The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud

“ I have long considered Otto Rank to be the great unacknowledged genius in Freud ’ s circle ,” said May ( Rank, 1996, p. xi ).

In a footnote, Freud laments that long term follow-up of this case was not possible, because the patient was killed in World War I.

" I paint people ," Freud said, " not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

In the letter Zweig told Freud: " I personally owe to your psychological therapy the restoration of my whole personality, the discovery that I was suffering from a neurosis and finally the curing of this neurosis by your method of treatment.

However he found the movement Freud was creating over-dogmatic, and resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1911, writing to Freud that " this'all or nothing ' is in my opinion necessary for religious communities and useful for political parties ... but for science I consider it harmful ".

In one of his letters Freud said, " I am interested only in the basement of the human being.

A beginning of my conception of psychosynthesis was contained in my doctoral thesis on Psychoanalysis ( 1910 ), in which I pointed out what I considered to be some of the limitations of Freud ’ s views.

The song related a tale of alcoholism and suicide, it later provided Freud with the titles of his two autobiographies, I Am the Voice Left from Drinking ( 2002 ) and I Am the Voice Left from Rehab ( 2007 ).

Freud has written two memoirs, I Am The Voice Left From Drinking ( 2002 ) and I Am The Voice Left From Rehab ( 2007 ); the titles are both taken from " Barbados " and allude to his addiction with drugs and alcohol, and his subsequent recovery attempts.

This work should be also understood in context of contemporary events: World War I undoubtedly influenced Freud and had an impact on his central observation about the tension between the individual and civilization.

After reviewing various literary theories, Freud concludes that Hamlet has an " Oedipal desire for his mother and the subsequent guilt preventing him from murdering the man who has done what he unconsciously wanted to do ".

In response, Sigmund Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process.

Women, who are considered to be already castrated, do not identify with the father, and therefore, for Freud, " their super-ego is never so inexorable, so impersonal, so independent of its emotional origins as we require it to be in men ... they are often more influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility.

Equally, Freud never abandoned the topographical division of conscious, preconscious, and unconscious, though as he noted ruefully " the three qualities of consciousness and the three provinces of the mental apparatus do not fall together into three peaceful couples ... we had no right to expect any such smooth arrangement.

Freud ceased his analysis of the brain and his physiological studies in order to turn his focus to the study of the mind and the related psychological attributes making up the mind, something not many psychologists were willing to do.

In accordance with Freud, the Pleasure principle may be responsible for procrastination ; humans do not prefer negative emotions, and handing off a stressful task until a further date is enjoyable.

Freud gave evidence to the fact that in the pregenital phase children do not distinguish between genders or sexes: they assume both parents have the same genitalia and the same reproductive powers.

Others, like Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud, feel a belief in luck has more to do with a locus of control for events in one's life, and the subsequent escape from personal responsibility.

After giving a work in 1989 to the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Kosuth, heavily influenced by Freud, invited other artists to do likewise ; today the museum owns 13 works by 13 Freud-influenced Conceptualists.

As object relations theory came to place more emphasis on the patient / analysts relationship, and less of the reconstruction of the past, so too the criticism emerged that ' Freud never quite freed himself from some use of pressure: he still advocated the " fundamental rule " of free association ... could have the effect of bullying the patient, as if to say: " If you do not associate freely-we have ways of making you "'.

Freud himself cannot experience this feeling of dissolution, but notes that there do indeed exist different pathological and healthy states ( e. g. love ) where the boundary between ego and object is lost, blurred, or distorted.

Freud ( in his “ Why War ?” letter to Einstein ) mentions Lichtenberg's invention of a “ Compass of Motives ” in a discussion on the combination of human compounded motives and quotes him as saying, “ The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, ‘ food-food-fame ’ or ‘ fame-fame-food ’.”

Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of " wish fulfillment " — attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past ( later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfillment ).

Some authors, such as Hans Eysenck, have argued that the dreams Freud cites do not really support his theories.

When it did, many psychoanalysts doubted that Freud had had much to do with it, though Freud was in fact an active co-author.

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The German edition contains some of Jung's letters to Spielrein English editions do not: Carotenuto, Aldo: Tagebuch einer heimlichen Symmetrie: Sabina Spielrein zwischen Jung und Freud.