The Austrian neurologist and the Father of Psychoanalysis, whose advanced thinking earned him a place in history, was fascinated by dream analysis and formulated the Oedipus complex. He described cocaine as a "wonder drug" and he also used #Marijuana until his death in 1939. He was almost onto the concept of replacement therapy—methadone, buprenorphine or Marijuana for people addicted to opioids.
He had a serious love for Cocaine & Marijuana. In a letter written to his fiancee, Freud said: "I expect that, they will win a place in therapeutics by the side of morphine. I take small doses against depression and indigestion and with the most brilliant of success."
The Father of Psychoanalysis & His Main Theories
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian Jewish neuropsychiatrist, founder of the Psychological School of Psychoanalysis. His work introduces notions such as unconscious, defense mechanisms, missed acts and dream symbolism.
The Main Theories of this school are based on the following hypotheses:
Human Development is understood by changing the bodily area of gratification of the sexual impulse.
The Psychic Device refuses desires, especially those with sexual and aggressive content, which are preserved in systems of unconscious ideas.
Unconscious Conflicts related to despised desires tend to manifest themselves in dreams, missed acts, and symptoms. Unconscious confrontations and repressed sexuality are the source of neurosis.
Neuroses Can Be Treated, using the psychoanalytic method, by bringing into conscious the unconscious and refuted desires.
The Freudian Trip
He Started Smoking cigarettes in his 20s, and then graduated to cigars. He smoked as many as 20 cigars in a typical day, even after developing mouth cancer and undergoing 34 surgeries for it. Later his Cigar Was Weed.
Sigmund Freud said Both the physical and psychical effects were instantly attractive, and in correspondence, he described how he had started taking cannabis "against depression and against indigestion, and with the most brilliant success."
His Theory basically finds that people constrain their innermost desires in order to conform to the social structure around them. Freud found in his conclusions that subconsciously (ego, superego, id) we have keys in our dreams, in our utterances which are accidentally placed, even in the words we choose or food we eat.
He have contributed to Fleischl-Marxow, his best friend’s early demise by administering cocaine and Marijuana To Cure him of his addiction to morphine in response to chronic pain.
Harmony Between Superego & ID
According to Freud, each dream is a wish from the subconscious being fulfilled.
So My Questions:
- Is there any psychoanalytic theories as to what Marijuana does to the ID / superego conflict?
- Could it be possible that Marijuana subdues the superego to the point of a lack of dreams?