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Anaesthetic for the Eye (Ode to Sigmund Freud)

by Son of Euler

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An electronic ode to father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.

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Sigmund Freud revolutionised our thinking about the human mind.

At first Freud talked to his patients while they were in a hypnotic state. He believed hysterical symptoms were related to painful events from childhood, he thought that if his patients could remember and talk about the first time they experienced the symptoms, they would be relieved to their suffering.

Freud also experimented with cocaine, he used himself for at least 10 years. He was enthusiastic about its therapeutic properties as and speculated on its potential as an anaesthetic for the eye publishing several papers including "On Cocaine".

Everything was reducible to chemical and physical forces.

I made her lay down and keep her eyes shut. Throughout the analysis I made use of the technique of bringing out pictures and the ideas by means of pressing on the patient's head. When I pressed her head she would maintain that nothing occurred to her, I would repeat my pressure but still nothing appeared. Perhaps I said, she had not been sufficiently attentive or perhaps her idea was not the right one. This I told her, it was not her affair. She was under an obligation to remain completely objective and say whatever came in to her head whether it was appropriate or not.

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released July 8, 2016

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Son of Euler Barcelona, Spain

Being raised by a mathematician and an fine artist's daughter he used to praise creativity and scientific rationalism.

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