Austrian Neurologist and Psychologist Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is regarded as a phenomena psychologist who made significant impacts on psychoanalysis. He was born in 1856 and raised in the Czech Republic. Also, he spent a considerable time in Viena Australia, where he advanced his neurological knowledge. Having been born in a large family background with poor living conditions, Sigmund has to work extremely hard to uplift his family's condition and assist his parents and his siblings. He was enrolled at Vienna university, where he excelled in his medical degree and graduated in1881. Upon graduation, he was employed at Vienna general hospital. It was in this hospital where he found his mentor in neurological functions and embraced the great lessons he could learn from her (Ross 127). Her supervisor at the time was Jean Charcot, who was a successful neurologist. Sigmund was later sent to conduct research on psychiatric patients in Paris. During this research work and interacting with psychiatric patients, Sigmund learned he could use hypnosis to treat patients. This ideology was based on the notion that the unconscious human mind is the one that determines the healing process. He learned a lot about the human mind and its functionalities during his research, which helped him come up with his psychological theories (Triarhou 132).
Freud is largely attributed to having made the first breakthrough in handling the mind as an entity distinct from the body. He developed psychotherapy as a result of his discovery of many thinking levels and how they relate to one another. Freud identified three primary components of the human mind, which he named the Id, the Ego, and the Super-ego. The id, which conceptualizes primal impulses and innate drives, is the primarily biological component of the human mind. This part of the brain is thought of as being basically unconscious. The ego, or socializing aspect of the human mind, served as the conscious mind's main association (Triarhou 132). The ego's role was to constrain the impulses and wants so that they remained within socially acceptable boundaries, so assisting us in navigating the outside world. This was controlled by the super-ego, also known as the conscience, which makes judgements about whether an individual's decision to act or not act on a particular urge, as well as the tactics used to pursue any action. Individual differences influence how these components interact. One must make sure that the three elements are in harmony in order to live a life that would be regarded as healthy. One needs ego power, as Freud put it, to be able to compete with these three elements. Those with strong egos are able to establish a balance between these elements, whereas individuals with weak egos may give in to pleasure.
Modern-day psychologists greatly borrow insights from the works of Sigmund. One of the greatest theories founded by Sigmund is the Oedipus Complex theory. The Oedipus complex, according to Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual phases of development, is a term used to describe a child's sentiments of desire for the parent of the opposite gender and publicly expressed jealousy towards the parent of his or her own gender. In essence, boy children tend to fe...