I am doing a report on Sigmund Freud and I am trying to figure out the social norms during the time when he lived in Austria Hungary. I am interested in the social norms that could have caused him to become an enemy of th people when he disagreed with them.
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I'm thinking victorian in society definition. Which means he would have had to of worked his way up the social ladder before he started declaring his opinions, which ultimately means the people who disagreed with him would have been people he knew quite well.
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I believe he said, he became more Jewish as people became more Nazi. Psychoanalysis that. lol
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A class society similar to the Victorian and Edwardian society in England. Basically Matriarchal where women had few legal rights and men had the total responsibility of supporting their women and children and providing. Sexual repression, contradiction and double standards was the norm, which according to Freud was the root of our psychological maladies. It was an inequitable society with the poor supporting the rich with low pay and long hours.
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Freud was major into cocaine, when he first started quest to find his big theory he and one of his medical friend (can't remember his name for the life of me) started experimenting with cocaine on patients. Cocaine was a sedative and relaxant. That's why they thought it had medical properties. His addiction had a lot to do with why people didn't take him seriously. Also his theories of Id, Ego, and Superego did not deal with sociological influences. Another reason why his ideas have been discarded over the years. Hope this helps with your report!
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I'm don't know where the previous responders got their information, but in the century and country where I live, Sigmund Freud preceded the Nazis by quite some time! Being Austrian by nationality, I doubt that he was much influenced by Queen Victoria of England, either. If you read anything at all about him, I suspect you'll find quite a lot about the social norms of his time. Some of the more glaringly obvious would be the fact that sex was a taboo topic and so people had lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of hangups about it, which is why his theories of psychology are all about sex and people's hangups about sex. Another one is the fact that men dominated women (also known as patriarchy in anthropology) which he put in sexual terms, calling it penis envy, which cracked me up the first time I read it. One of his first patients was a very young teenaged girl whom he thought ought to go out and have a sexual affair with a middle-aged man of his acquaintance, an idea I should think wouldn't sit nearly so well with my contemporaries. So perhaps that gives you another idea of what sexual and social mores were like in his day and time. Men tended to get what they wanted, regardless of how many little girls' lives got ruined in the process. I don't know which people you think he was the enemy of, but I do know that one of his most brilliant students was Carl Jung and later on, Jung disagreed with some of his ideas, then branched off on his own and created Jungian pschyology, which differs quite a bit from Freudian psychology. Freud didn't like that because Freud was quite Germanic, which means he was terribly authoritarian and though that all his students ought to follow in HIS footsteps rather than setting out on their own and starting new schools of thought. So Freud didn't care much for Jung after that. Freud died badly since he developed cancer, which has a very modern sound. They had no modern treatments for it though, so he suffered horribly. People in those days often considered cancer to be a punishment from God, much as people today often consider AIDS to be a punishment from God. Fortunately, Freud himseld did NOT believe that. So, although he had some quirks, as many of us do, he has gone down in history as a great man and the father of psychology, for developing the notion of the subconscious, if nothing else. And I leave it to you to do some actual reading in his materials and discover more for yourself, because it's really fascinating. And sometimes even funny. You'll never guess what he thought a cigar was. Or maybe you will.
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