The brain, an organ we all have. It is an organ whose power can overcome any challenge. The brain holds what we know as the human unconscious mind. This is a place filled with mysteries and contradictions. It is almost impossible to regard a person's brain without an involuntary tingle of curiosity: what lay deep within the coralline gray whorls of this small, delicate kingdom? What happens along its intricate hallways, within the fine cerebral network of axons and dendrites, whose tiny, myriad sparkings are the physical basis of thought? What thoughts and unique ideas does this lump of flesh hold in its chambers so as to subvert the mind of its owner and warp his will to pure deadly evil or to pure luscious love and joy? What minotaur lurks in these vast chambers of power and knowledge? Who shall finally be the one to find the thread that will help us map this maze and slay this beast of mystery? One can not say.
Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, smoking ...
Statue of Sigmund Freud in London, with the Tavist...
English: Entrance to Freuds consulting roomBut there was one man. This Theseus of modern day science was the first to explore the deep and vast systematic chambers of the human unconscious mind. His ideas profoundly influenced the shape of modern day society by altering mans view of himself. This modern day Jason who found the thread and began to slay the beast of mystery goes by the name of SIGMUND FREUD.
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor, Czech Republic)and was the oldest of his father's second wife. Freuds father, Jakob, encouraged his intellectually gifted son and passed on to him a tradition of skeptical and independent thinking. Freud shared his mother's attention with seven younger brothers and sisters, but nevertheless he always remained close to his mother. At the young age...