Der Fall Freud (1/5): Kindheit | Inside Austria

Sigmund Freud would have turned 170 in May. In this podcast series from Inside Austria, we tell his story – and explore his legacy. Subscribe to the STANDARD on YouTube so you don't miss any episodes! We live in the age of self-analysis. We call our bosses narcissists, ask about repressed desires, and want to know what heals our inner child. With all these questions, one name is inescapable: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis – who would have celebrated his 170th birthday in May. The Jewish physician from Vienna coined terms like "the unconscious" – and thus created our modern understanding of ourselves. From his practice on Vienna's Berggasse, Freud changed the world. He was celebrated like a pop star of science – and attacked like a charlatan. But who was this man really? In our series "The Freud Case," we trace the life of the man who still haunts our thoughts today – like almost no other Austrian. We tell his story. But we also ask the question: Can Freud help us today, in a complex world, at least to better understand ourselves? Or have his ideas led us even further astray? In the first episode, we focus on childhood. What influence do early experiences in our family home have on how we navigate life later on? What frightens us? We want to understand how Freud developed his famous theories about childhood—for example, the Oedipus complex. And how he explored hypnosis on his path to discovering the unconscious. To do this, we lie down on the couch of a Viennese psychoanalyst ourselves—and allow ourselves to be hypnotized. Interviewee: Georg Markus, Kurier columnist and author of the biography "Sigmund Freud: The Man and the Physician. His Cases and His Life." Cecile Loetz and Jakob Müller (podcast "Riddles of the Unconscious," authors of "Now I'm Just Like My Parents") Claudia Muchitsch (Alpine Foxes City Tours) Juan Jose Rios Vela (hypnotherapist and psychoanalyst) Sercan Agpunar (psychotherapist) Esther Hutfless (Professor of Psychotherapy Sciences at the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna and psychoanalyst) Daniela Finzi (Scientific Director of the Freud Museum) Christfried Tögel (Freud biographer) Margherita Fink (psychoanalyst) Eva-Maria Schnurr (History editor, "Der Spiegel") Special thanks also go to Stephanie Hoffmann from the documentation department of "Der Spiegel," Laura Stuth for editorial support, and Ole Reißmann for AI support. Thumbnail copyright: Max Halberstadt (photo in the public domain); Editing: Tobias Holub Did you enjoy the video? Like, subscribe, and support our work: https://abo.derstandard.at/?ref=Podca... THANK YOU!!!