Information that will help you while watching the first 3 episodes of Freud series
As you can imagine, the Netflix series Freud describes the life of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud in detail. You may need a small guide to properly understand many historical events and the series that the person went through.
Episode 1 – Hysteria
What is hysteria?
Pronounced psychoneurotic disorder with psychosomatic complaints of various systems such as hysteria, psychic and motor disorders, especially flooding in emotional reactions, sudden anger, movement disorders, temporary personality change and daily memory loss. It defines a neurotic mental disease that expresses extreme imagination or fears when it goes out of control and disrupts one’s functionality. Hysteria is known as a sudden, nervous, neurotic disease in patients. The hysterical patient is unaware of the impairment of his mental health.
Important people
Who is Arthur Schnitzler?
Dr. One of Sigmund Freud’s close friends. He was educated in medicine like his father. However, he became a writer because he was interested in literature during his student years. He tried to convey the principles of psychoanalysis, inspired by the internal monologue method. It is obvious that some events and analyzes that Freud uncovered in psychoanalysis have been seen in Schnitzler’s works. For this reason, it may be correct to admit that Schnitzler is Freud’s reflection in the field of literature. Meanwhile, Freud does not deny their interactions and emphasizes Schniztler’s “perceptions and observations of the individual about the unconscious” in a letter.
Who are the Szapárys?
Szapáry is the surname of a noble Hungarian family. He brought many diplomats and politicians to Hungary. In the series, we watched Hungarian countess Sophia Von Szápáry and count Viktor Szápáry.
Who is Theodor Meynert?
Dr. Sigmund Freud left the physiology institute due to financial impossibilities and moved to the Vienna general hospital. After working here in various departments, Theodor Meynert began researching the brain anatomy and nervous system in the psychiatric ward and was appointed as the hospital’s assistant.
Who is Jean-Martin Charcot?
He was a famous neurologist and doctor, and worked for the pitié-salpêtrière hospital for 30 years. 3000 of 5000 patients in his hospital were mentally ill. Hypnosis therapy founder for hysteria patients. In the period when discussing the differences between drug therapy and hypnosis therapy, schniztler put a hypnosis expert against the doctor who applied the drug therapy in the drama named paracelsus. Cora, who could not recover with the help of a doctor and medication, got rid of melancholy disease through a hypnosis, with a brief application, in a moment. What comes to mind at this point is the thoughts about the hysteria and treatment of jean – martin charcot, where sigmund freud worked together in france and brought his studies to vienna community through translation. charcot argued that, besides linking hysteria discomfort to a shock experienced by the individual, his solution could only be through hypnosis. a little information freud never took out the charcot table in his room.
Episode 2 – Trauma
What is trauma?
More in psychology; It is an experience that the individual cannot react properly, cannot solve it even though it stands on it, therefore pushes it out of consciousness. It constantly feels the effect of the individual from the unconscious on the spiritual structure of the individual, the individual is in a feeling as if he is always facing the life in question.
Freud defines trauma as follows: “We describe each life as traumatic in a short period of time, which confronts spiritual life with many stimuli, thus causing them not to deal with these stimuli in the normal way, or to cause disturbances in the spiritual distribution of energy at hand.” In other words, trauma is considered as the difficulty of the spirituality of the individual in the face of excessive stimulus.
Chapter 3 – Sleepwalking
What is Sleepwalking?
If we look at the original sleepwalking, it can be examined under the heading parasoni (behavioral disorders in sleep). In addition to sleepwalking, there are also examples such as splash, teeth grinding, palpitations and sweating during sleep. Basically, it occurs in the first two hours of the night in the 3 and 4 steps (stages where sleep depth increases and brain waves slow down) in nonrem sleep (that is, stage where dream is not seen). It is more common in children. There is an accepted opinion in the experienced examples that this problem is mostly based on genetic, i.e. familial reasons. Factors that deepen sleep at night, such as insomnia, anxiety, and fever, increase sleepwalking. The sleepwalking rate in healthy adults is 1-2%. Speech is often seen in sleep.
I have not come across Freud’s thoughts on sleepwalking before, but something can happen if a comprehensive German / French scan is possible. Dr. Sigmund Freud and his student Carl Gustav Jung come up with the “dream” and “unconscious” concepts that are closest to this subject. To summarize, Dr. Freud describes the dream as seeing that it is a door that opens out of consciousness, and that one sees childish and even animalistic ideas, desires and longing, that is, it reveals the issues that consciousness cannot easily express and hide. It tries to emphasize the individuality of the dream. His student, Jung, argues that dreams are an inherited, unconscious, evolutionary process, the legacy of our ancestors and collective memory that includes their experiences.
Important people and events
Who is Josef Breuer?
Dr. Breuer is Freud’s colleague and co-founder of psychoanalysis. He was the first scientist to describe the function of the cochlea (snail) canals in the inner ear to maintain balance.
What is the cathartic method applied by Breuer?
Breuer talks about the cathartic method (“purifying, cleansing” in Greek). This method is a form of treatment that allows the patient to talk about his symptoms and experiences with the free association method.
Who is Pappenheim?
Pappenheim, a 21-year-old girl from a wealthy family, was known for her intelligence and education. After his father’s death, he started to show some physical and severe psychological symptoms. He suffered a severe stroke on the right side of his body with loss of sensation and the same problem was occasionally seen on his left side. Impaired eye movements and eyesight have been exposed to obstacles many times. Reluctance about feeding started and she could not drink water despite being thirsty. He was experiencing speech problems in his native language.
Pappenheim’s Dr. Freud is trying to explain his fantasies to Breuer in the words of Charcot: “The issue is always the reproductive organs.” Where does this phrase come from?
In French sources, the seduction theory developed by Freud is often explained by “la chose génitale”. A story of Freud is mentioned in the book A mind of its own: A cultural history of the penis. Freud attends a night at Charcot at his home during his Paris trip. Later in the night, Dr. He overhears a conversation between Breuer and a respected forensic expert Paul Brouardel. Charcot tells the story of a married couple who came to the hospital that day. The man suffered from impotence and stated that the woman complained of hysteria. Forensic expert Brouardel suspects that the woman’s neuroses may arise due to the erotic state of Charcot, where Charcot wraps her hands crosswise at her place and bounces, “it is always the reproductive organs.” he says. Freud’s astonishment was that Charcot knew why he never said that.
And Freud, who tells this story, published the theory of seduction claiming that after the death of Charcot, his hysteria developed from memories of sexual abuse in childhood.
Who is Martha Bernays?
Freud’s first contact with Martha (April 1882) begins as soon as he sees him. When Freud first saw Martha, the 21-year-old girl was right at the apple. Freud, who fell in love with Martha at that time, sent her roses every day and called out “princess”. After a period of 2 months, they stay engaged for 4 years and get married. It is said that Freud sent 900 letters during his engagement.
What is the Ringtheater event?
We hear that Sophia Von Szápáry lived in the ruins of the Ringtheater while she hypnotized Freud, and then we heard fire cries and cries for help in the hall. Indeed, Freud was one of the first inhabitants of the building built on the ruins with the permission of the emperor Franz Joseph.
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