In this article, it discusses what Freud published a hundred years ago or a century ago. The British publishing company asked him for a brief exposition of his work to include it in their dictionary, which reflected the people who had culturally contributed to the first part of the 20st century. Freud wrote it at the end of 1923, and it was published in English in 1924, even though the original was in German, which was published in 1928. However, it should not be confused with what he wrote two years later in 1926 for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The article provides an overview of his journey with Breuer and their separation, which gave rise to the beginning of psychoanalysis. Freud emphasizes multiple times that psychoanalysis should not be limited to the clinical field. The unconscious, his significant contribution to culture, belongs to the normal functioning of the psyche. That’s why he also refers to his work as “a new psychology,” and in the article, the author discusses psychoanalytic anthropology.
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Unconscious. anthropology, clinic, normality.
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[Automatic translation from Catalan]:
It is nice, at least for me, to reread the articles that Sigmund Freud wrote a hundred years ago. You always learn from it. It is necessary to resort to and return to sources in order to advance and not lose us in the psychoanalytic field. However, you must know the context in which the articles are written. Between 1923 and 1924, following The century of psychoanalysis (Rodrigue, 1996), the conjuncture was: diagnosis of maxillary cancer, births of grandchildren, publication of the work The Me and the Id, difficult relations with Rank, translations of the works, beginning of the publication of their writings, maintenance of correspondence and visits of illustrious people to their home. And her daughter Anna’s decision to stay with her father and keep the word of a dignified death with her doctor. And in this context, he publishes, on demand, the article that will be discussed.[…]
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