Article ID: CBB001320231

From the EEL to the EGO: Psychoanalysis and the Remnants of Freud's Early Scientific Practice (2013)

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While numerous historiographical works have been written to shed light on Freud's early theoretical education in biology, physiology, and medicine and on the influence of that education on psychoanalysis, this paper approaches Freud's basic comprehension of science and methodology by focusing on his early research practice in physiology and neuranatomy. This practice, taking place in the specific context of Ernst Brücke's physiological laboratory in Vienna, was deeply concerned with problems of visuality and the revelation of hidden organic structures by use of proper preparation techniques and optical instruments. The paper explores the connection between such visualizing practices, shaped by a physiological context as they were, and Freud's later convictions of the scientific status of psychoanalysis and the function of its method as means to unveil the concealed structure of the psychical apparatus.

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Authors & Contributors
Yılmaz, Yunus Anıl
Tran The, Jessica
Bellavia, Sonia
Berke, Joseph H.
Winter, Sarah
Windgätter, Christof
Concepts
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychiatry
Neurology
Methodology of science; scientific method
Sexuality
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Vienna (Austria)
France
Europe
Institutions
Society for Psychical Research
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