Sigmund Freud died on September 23, 1939, in London, at the age of 83 years. His radical ideas about the function of the human mind laid the foundations of the science of psychology. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of his death in History published ten things you may not know about the man who went down in history as "the father of modern psychoanalysis."
1 The death of Freud may have been an assisted suicide
In the summer of 1939, Freud had become weak and was suffering from severe pain due to cancer of the mouth. On September 21 Freud grabbed the hand of a doctor and friend, Max Sour, and reiterated an earlier promise "not to torture him without reason." "Now that I live is nothing but torture for no reason," she said. After receiving permission from Freud's daughter, Anna, Sur granted him an overdose of morphine injection to pass pain. Freud went into a coma and never woke up.
2 He was a heavy smoker and had undergone 30 surgeries to remove tumors
Freud got addicted to smoking after the first cigarette was lit at age 20. Daily stopped at a store to buy tobacco for cigars, smoking more than 20 daily. Despite the warnings of doctors for the furious smoking, Freud believed that his favorite habit increases productivity and creativity. After the discovery of tumors in the mouth, in 1923, doctors removed a large part of his jaw.He had a total of 33 surgeries in 16 years, but never stopped smoking.
3 Freud believed that cocaine is a miracle drug
In 1880 Freud was particularly interested in a little known but legal at that time medicine used by a German military doctor to revive the tired soldiers. This drug was none other than the cocaine. Freud experimented with cocaine and even share it with friends and his partner, even advertise the "therapeutic benefits" of a report written in 1884 entitled "On Cocaine," which he called a "hymn to this magical substance '. Freud gave cocaine to his friend Ernst von Flaisl Marxof in an attempt to detox from morphine addiction. Later Marxof got addicted to cocaine. When Freud learned that apparently the addiction and death from overdose of cocaine have been recorded on other people stopped supporting the medical benefits. However he continued to use it himself as a drug for migraines, nasal inflammation and depression until the mid 1890s.
4 Refused $ 100,000 from an American Hollywood mogul
Since 1925, Freud's reputation had spread to such an extent that the film producer Samuel Gkolntgouin offered him $ 100,000 to write the offer tips for writing a screenplay on "the great love stories in the world." Freud refused the offer, as he had done with the $ 25,000 he had offered the previous year, the publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper to write a psychological analysis of the two famous criminals Leopold and lobby, who would face the court in some time.
5 "The Interpretation of Dreams" was initially a commercial failure
The book Freud regarded as the most important work had very little response when first published in 1899, selling only 351 copies in six years. Second edition of the book was not released until 1909.
6 The famous couch was a gift from a grateful patient
Freud began to apply the method of hypnosis when he opened his first clinic in Vienna in 1886 with his patients to lie down during the procedure. When he started to use the 'dialectic therapy' during psychoanalysis Freud continued to call patients to lie down on the famous couch that was a thank you gift from a patient, while he sat in his armchair holding notes.
7 The Nazis burned books - Escape from Austria
Freud was an atheist, but his family was Jewish and he was persecuted by the Nazis. His books were among those burned in 1933 by the Nazi regime. He faced the fact with sarcasm. "We have made progress. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me, "he said. After the annexation of Austria, the Nazis invaded his home, arresting and investigated his daughter. With the help of his friend and a patient's fled to Paris and then in London with his wife and daughter.
8 Four of his sisters died in Nazi concentration camps
The four sisters were not able to follow him despite the efforts. Freud died just weeks after the outbreak of the Second World War, while the four sisters that remained in Vienna were sent to concentration camps where they eventually died.
9 He had studied the sexual life of eels
While still at the University of Vienna, the young Freud was studying zoology. On a research trip to Trieste he studied the reproduction of eels, the professor assigned to investigate especially males seeking their testicles. Freud after many hours of futile anatomy concluded: "All eels that have been investigated are female."
10 Thieves tried to steal the ashes
Freud's ashes were placed in an ancient Greek amphora. His wife, Martha, died in 1951 and her ashes were placed in the same amphora at Golders Green Crematorium in London. In January 2014, the London police said that thieves tried to take the ashes. Result of their efforts was the amphora, 2300 years, to be damaged.
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