Sigmund Freud
1856 – 1939 · Austria · Medicine, Philosophy
Invented psychoanalysis and the modern language of the unconscious.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped Sigmund Freud, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- William James
1842 – 1910 · Philosophy, Psychology
James hosted and read Freud at Clark in 1909, brokering psychoanalysis into America.
Passed the work to3
- Candace Pert
1946 – 2013 · Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine
Pert's neuropeptide work gave emotion a molecular account psychoanalysis lacked.
- Gabor Maté
1944 · Integrative Medicine, Psychology
Maté's trauma model descends from psychodynamic developmental theory.
- Viktor Frankl
1905 – 1997 · Philosophy, Psychology
Frankl trained in the Vienna analytic milieu and replaced pleasure with meaning as the drive.
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