https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud: Sigmund Freud (/ˈfrɔɪd/ FROYD; German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.
In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.
Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. In the words of W. H. Auden's 1940 poetic tribute, by the time of Freud's death, he had become "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives."
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On a lighter note, as much a tragedy the AIDS pandemic was for those who had to suffer through it personally, there was a small silver lining to the AIDS pandemic. If you think of negative stereotyping of homosexuals, and even drug users, as an ICE BERG; it's the tip of the ICE Berg above the water that everyone can so obviously see or making the news though some crime related incidence setting the negative stereotype for homosexual and drug users as a whole. Only a homosexual or a drug user would appreciate to the full extent just how much both are dispersed unknowingly, silently throughout our society as a whole. The AIDS pandemic, in a way, lifted the bulk of that ICE BERG almost completely above the surface of the water for all to see just how little separation there was between them and us. No family or class was spared. In the future, once the bulk of the horror of the pandemic has passed, it will be credited for speeding up the GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
And the same goes for drug users/abuse. Drug abuse is never going to go away. And only until we legalize all drug use, will America drug addiction ever be effectively dealt with. Only then will responsibility for America's Addictions fall back upon those who should have been shouldering this responsibility all along...the parents; who instead choose to pass blame/responsibility to the authorities wanting them to do their baby-sitting. Those head-line grabbing drug bust every few years are a fucking joke. Never once has my drug addiction in any way been affected/slowed down/inconvenienced by those raids. It's just an illusion taking advantage of class warfare/arrogance by America's wealthier half who are better positioned and able hiding their addictions from the public. Or with a surplus, better able controlling their circumstances and rebounding from their addictions, compared to those without who are controlled by them. One is not always able exercising good judgment. And I know of one young gay man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the amount of drugs he was caught dealing. Those people who would have purchased all those drugs from him would have had no problem finding a replacement source, I can assure you. Inconvenienced for a week at most. Where there is a demand, there will always be a supply. It's capitalism at it's finest. And we know just how addicted real American are to it's exceptionalism!
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