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CHARLES DARWIN: His influence on Sigmund Freud: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis Much of the world as we know it today was shaped by great thinkers, from Aristotle to Albert Einstein. ... Much of what we know as evolution, the gradual change from lower forms of life to higher and more specialized species, was given to us by Charles Darwin. ... Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was a great change in the thinking of the day and gave many people, both great thinkers and common man alike a new direction for their ponderings. ... In the case of Sigmund Freud, there were any number of people, ideas and discoveries that set him on his way to becoming the “Father of modern Psychology”. One of the many people who may have had more than a casual influence him was Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Darwin, was a physician. Charless mother, Susannah Wedgwood Darwin, died when he was eight years old, and his grandfather Erasmus was a poet, philosopher, and naturalist. ... So immediately we can see where Darwin may have gotten a taste of what was too later not only consume him but also make him famous. When he was sixteen, Darwin left his home in Shrewsbury to study medicine at Edinburgh University. ... Here he met John Henslow, a professor of botany there, and an enormous influence to the young Darwin. After receiving his degree, and with a little help from his mentor Henslow, Darwin was offered and accepted an invitation to serve as an unpaid naturalist and the companion to the Captain on the H. ... The purpose of this voyage was a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South America, which departed on 31 December 1831, and allowed Darwin essentially free reign to study nature and natural phenomenon wherever he could. Darwin collected huge amounts of information and detailed observations of many different species of animals and insects. ... This allowed Darwin the luxury of collecting samples of not only the observed creatures, but also of many different kinds of plants. ... Several years prior to the publishing of Darwin’s book Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. ... Freud’s had two half brothers from his father’s first marriage. ... Freud often said he disliked Vienna intensely, but he never made any move to leave, and in fact lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freuds family background was Jewish, and though his father was a freethinker, Freud himself was an avowed atheist. ... org/wgbh/ aso/databank/entries /bhfreu) Freud began attending the Vienna Gymnasium in 1865 where he was introduced for the first time to the theories that Darwin had published just years before. It was during the early 1870’s while still unsure as to where he was headed in his life that young Sigmund Freud first came under the “spell of Darwinism” Many years later in his autobiography Freud wrote “the theories of Darwin, which were then of topical interest, strongly attracted me, for they held out hopes of extraordinary advance in our understanding of the world”. (Freud: biologist of the mind, Frank J. ... 13>) This is very important for although this statement was basically Freud looking back on his life, it shows that he was definitely aware and interested in the ideas that Darwin had put forth. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious, and was very interested in physiology. ... In his first year Freud took a class with a Darwinian biologist Carl Clause, called “general Biology and Darwin” (Freud: biologist of the mind, Frank J. ... 14>) It is easy to see that even into university Freud was interested in the ideas and theories presented by Darwin. Over the next several years, under the tutelage of Clause, Helmholtz and especially Brucke, Freud published many papers. ... It was the belief that because of this and other factors Freud would be the next assistant to his mentor Brucke. There was however a small problem with this view of his future that Freud seemed to be either unaware of or that he purposefully did not acknowledge. ... In 1882 it was Brucke himself who finally pointed out to Freud that there would be no real future for him as a research assistant. The funding situation at that time for research scientists was difficult at best, so unless he could fund himself Freud would be fighting an uphill battle. Faced with the facts of these inevitable hardships, Freud reluctantly gave up his aspirations to be a research biologist, and took up medicine. (Freud: biologist of the mind, Frank J. ... The year spent with Charcot, while productive was limiting, and the fact that Darwin’s theories were not really accepted in by him may have affected Freud’s ability to incorporate them into his work. |
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