Mysteries of Nature

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Natural Scientists

The article examines a group photograph of the Psychiatry and Neurology section of the 66th Meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Vienna, 24–30 September 1894 which Sigmund Freud attended. The society's origins in Naturphilosophie are indicated and a number of the participants are identified on the photo. They and the events at the conference are related to Sigmund Freud's work at the time and to his gradual abandonment of anatomy and of heredity and degeneration as significant aetiological factors in the neuroses. Philosophical problems, such as how phenomena should be described and how ‘nature’ is conceptualized, are also considered in the light of their implications for Freud's life and thought at that period.

scholarly journals The enactment of physician-authors in Nobel Prize nominations

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242498
Author(s):  
Nils Hansson ◽  
Peter M. Nilsson ◽  
Heiner Fangerau ◽  
Jonatan Wistrand
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Nobel Committee ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Gottfried Benn ◽  
Natural Scientists

Several physicians have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, but so far none of them have received it. Because physicians as women and men of letters have been a major topic of feuilletons, seminars and books for many years, questions arise to what extent medicine was a topic in the proposals for the Nobel Prize and in the Nobel jury evaluations: how were the nominees enacted (or not) as physicians, and why were none of them awarded? Drawing on nomination letters and evaluations by the Nobel committee for literature collected in the archive of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, this article offers a first overview of nominated physician-author candidates. The focus is on the Austrian historian of medicine Max Neuburger (1868–1955), the German novelist Hans Carossa (1878–1956), and the German poet Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), but it also briefly takes further physician-author nominees into account such as Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965). The article is part of an interdisciplinary medical humanities project that analyses nominations and committee reports for physicians and natural scientists nominated for the Nobel Prize from 1901 to 1970.

Can a Theory of Suicide Predict All “Suicides” in the Elderly?

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Psychiatric Study

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.

SIGMUND FREUD: ONCE MORE WITH LESS FEELING

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-537
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud

The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1887--1904.

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1007-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Wachtel
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud

Die Erfindung der Psychotherapie – das erste Jahrhundert. Deutschland 1695-1808

2012 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
U. H. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud

ZusammenfassungViele Historiker meinen, die Psychotherapie sei von Sigmund Freud erfunden worden, wieder andere glauben, die Psychotherapie habe um 1800 begonnen. Das eine ist so wenig zutreffend wie das andere. Die Psychotherapie ist ab 1700 unmittelbar mit dem Beginn der Aufklärung in Deutschland entstanden, als Georg Ernst Stahl 1695 als erster eine Theorie darüber veröffentliche, wie Körper und Psyche aufeinander wirken. Die Psychotherapie besteht nun bereits in ihrem 4. Jahrhundert und findet in Deutschland allgemeine Anerkennung. Im Folgenden soll nun ihr erstes Jahrhundert näher beleuchtet werden. Es ist die Phase der Entstehung der Psychotherapie bis hin zur Prägung ihres Namens zu Beginn 1800. Ihre Entwicklung, ihre Lehre und ihre Techniken und Anwendung werden hier im Einzelnen dargestellt.

Freud, sex, and the soul: does Freud’s focus on sex obscure his relevance to the twenty-first century soul-searcher?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Eliza Preston
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Century ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Modern Reader ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article explores what the work of Sigmund Freud has to offer those searching for a more spiritual and philosophical exploration of the human experience. At the early stages of my psychotherapy training, I shared with many peers an aversion to Freud’s work, driven by a perception of a mechanistic, clinical approach to the human psyche and of a persistent psychosexual focus. This article traces my own attempt to grapple with his work and to push through this resistance. Bettelheim’s (1991) treatise that Freud was searching for man’s soul provides a more sympathetic lens through which to explore Freud’s writing, one which enabled me to discover a rich depth which had not previously been obscured. This article is an account of my journey to a new appreciation of Freud’s work. It identifies a number of challenges to Bettelheim’s argument, whilst also indicating how his revised translation allowed a new understanding of the relevance of Freud’s work to the modern reader. This account may be of interest to those exploring classical psychotherapeutic literature as well as those guiding them through that process.

Shakespearean Melancholy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
The Core ◽  
Robert Burton

What’s so funny about melancholy? Iconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy showcases an extraordinary reliance on melancholy that ultimately reminds us of the porous demarcation between laughter and sorrow. This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare’s comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and, conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy. In fashioning his own comic interpretation of the humour, Shakespeare distils an impressive array of philosophical discourses on the matter, from Aristotle to Robert Burton, and as a result, transforms the theoretical afterlife of both notions. The book suggests that the deceptively potent sorrow at the core of plays such as The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, or The Winter’s Tale influences modern accounts of melancholia elaborated by Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, and others. What’s so funny about melancholy in Shakespearean comedy? It might just be its reminder that, behind roaring laughter, one inevitably finds the subtle pangs of melancholy.

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