Sigmund Freud

Date

1856–1939

Description

City of birth (modern equivalence): Príbor
Country of birth (modern-day equivalent): Czech Republic
Field of activity: Culture — psychoanalysis

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Quotes

‘ “Fright”, “fear” and “anxiety” [Schreck, Furcht and Angst] are improperly used as synonymous expressions; they are in fact capable of clear distinction in their relation to danger. “Anxiety” describes a particular state of expecting the danger or preparing for it, even though it may be an unknown one. “Fear” requires a definite object of which to be afraid. “Fright”, however, is the name we give to the state a person gets into when he has run into danger without being prepared for it; it emphasizes the factor of surprise. I do not believe anxiety can produce a traumatic neurosis. There is something about anxiety that protects its subject against fright and so against fright-neuroses.’

Author

Sigmund Freud

Speaker

Sigmund Freud

Title of the publication

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Other contributors

Translated by James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud and assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

The Hogarth Press

City of publication

London

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United Kingdom

Publication date

1955 (Freud’s essay published in English in 1922)

Location [pp. or web]

pp. 12 (7–23)

Other location

users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/Freud.pdf

Original language

German

Genre

Academic essay

'It is surely of the essence of an emotion that we should feel it, i.e. that it should enter consciousness. So for emotions, feelings and affects to be unconscious would be quite out of the question. But in psychoanalytic practice we are accustomed to speak of unconscious love, hate, anger, etc., and find it impossible to avoid even the strange conjunction, "unconscious consciousness of guilt", or a paradoxical "unconscious anxiety". Is there more meaning in the use of these terms than there is in speaking of "unconscious instincts"? ... In any event, the use of such terms as "unconscious affect and emotion" has reference to the fate undergone, in consequence of repression, by the quantitative factor in the instinctual impulse.'

Author

Sigmund Freud

Speaker

Sigmund Freud

Title of the publication

'The Unconscious', in General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology.

Other contributors

Translated by Cecil M. Baines, edited and introduced by Philip Rieff

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Collier Books

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1963 (Freud’s essay published in 1915)

Location [pp. or web]

pp. 393–401

Other location

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Unconscious.pdf

Original language

German

Genre

Essay

'Freud’s understanding of anti-Semitism — provoked by (oedipal) conflict — thus coupled fear and anxiety along with resentment, frustration, and displacement as the driving emotions in the psychic life of anti-Semitism. His insights would have an enduring influence.'

Author

Jonathan Judaken

Speaker

Jonathan Judaken

Title of the publication

'Anxiety and Anti-Semitism: Emotions and Judeophobia'

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

Spring 2015

Location [pp. or web]

6 (6-8)

Other location

ajsnet.org/ajsp15sp.pdf

Original language

English

Genre

Journal article

Context

Article discusses Freud’s attachment of emotion to anti-Semitism, especially in his Moses and Monotheism (1939).