Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas have set the standard for modern

psychoanalysis in which students of psychology can learn from his ideas spread from the field of medicine to daily living. His studies in areas such as

unconsciousness, dreams, sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and sexual

maladjustments laid the foundation for future studies. In result, better understanding of the small things which shape our lives (Jung).

Psycho-Analysis is the name of a procedure for the investigation of mental processes which are almost inaccessible in any other way, of a method (based upon that investigation) for the treatment of neurotic disorders and of a collection of psychological information obtained along those lines, which is gradually being accumulated into a new scientific discipline (Freud). Psychoanalysis is used still to this day, because of its appreciation of so many great psychologists.

From 1885 to 1886, Freud spent nineteen weeks with Jean Martin

Charcot, a world famous neurologist and the director of a Pari

In addition to publishing a book on jokes in 1905, Freud published Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. This book established Freud and some of his associates Richard von Kraft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Albert Moll, and Iwan Bloch as the "pioneering experts of sexology" (Gay). Sexual development starting young children, along with the ease of maladjustment in sexual development were the main basis of this publication (Freud). Freud stated that sexuality was of importance in human behavior.

Gay, Micheal. Freud's Theory On Sexuality. New York: Manitoba Publishing, 1993.

In his clinical observations Freud found evidence for the mental mechanisms of repression and resistance. He described repression as a device operating unconsciously to make the memory of painful or threatening events inaccessible to the conscious mind (Appignanesi). Resistance is defined as the unconscious defense against awareness of repressed experiences in order to avoid the resulting anxiety (Freud). He traced the operation of unconscious processes, using the free associations of the patient to guide him in the interpretation of dreams and slips of speech.

By 1906 a small number of pupils and followers had gathered around Freud, including the Austrian psychiatrist William Stekel and Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychologist Otto Rank, the American psychiatrist Abraham Brill, and the Swiss psychiatrists Eugen Bleuler and Carl Jung (Appignanesi). Other notable associates, who joined the circle in 1908, were the Hungarian psychiatrist Sandor Ferenczi and the British psychiatrist Ernest Jones ("Freud"). Increasing recognition of the psychoanalytic movement made possible the formation in 1910 of a worldwide organization called the International Psychoanalytic Association (Freud). Freudians was their political name ("Freud").

Freud created an entirely new approach to the understanding of human personality by his demonstration of the existence and force of the unconscious (Jung). In addition, he founded a new medical discipline and formulated basic therapeutic procedures that in modified form are applied widely in the present-day treatment of neuroses and psychoses.

Jung, Carl Gustav. Translated by R.F. Hall. Freud and Psychoanalysis. USA: Princeton Publishing, 1961.

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