Friday, May 05, 2006

Person of the Day: Sigmund Freud

Keywords: psychology

"Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. The theories distinctive of this school generally included hypotheses that (1) human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire, (2) the psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas, (3) unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ('Freudian slips'), and symptoms, (4) unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses, and (5) neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment."
Source: Wikipedia

Learn:
Sigmund Freud - MIT OCW
Brain and Cognitive Sciences - MIT OCW
Sigmund Freud - About.com
How Dreams Work - Howstuffworks

Discuss:
Sigmund Freud - MySpace
Cognitive Science - tribe.net
Social and Personality Psychology - MySpace

Blogs:
Brain Waves
CogNews
Cognitive Daily
Mind Hacks
Eide Neurolearning Blog
Neurofuture
neurodudes
Play Journal

See also:
Person of the Day - The World 2 Come

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