Friday, May 27, 2016

Freud contribution to understanding the empire

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He believed ones personality had three aspects (ego, id, superego) which work together to produce a persons behavior.  Freud believed that talking out loud about your emotion was the best way to deal with them. The only patients who met with him openly were women who would lay on his couch to talk about how they were feeling. In the 19th century hysteria was a common symptom Freud gave for middle-class women to have in Vienna. The negative contribution he gave to society made to normal to label women hysterical if they had different emotion.  During this time in society the only emotion men had were lust and anger so there was no need to talk more about how they were feeling.The bad stigma associated with men talking about how they felt may have help the crown prince Rudolf Franz from committing suicide. If he was able to express his emotions more openly out loud he might not have killed himself. I realized that the empire under Franz Joseph was very stick, conservative, and handle to high standard so when people want to stray away from he beliefs of the empire, they usually have to run or meet an unfortunate fate.

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