Der Fall Freud (2/5): Hysterie | Inside Austria

Hysterical female patients helped Freud develop psychoanalysis. Today, he is criticized, particularly for his views on women. Subscribe to the STANDARD on YouTube so you don't miss an episode! 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 figure is almost unavoidable: 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—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? "Don't be so hysterical"—many people, especially women, are familiar with this expression. "Hysterical" has become a derogatory term in our everyday language. In Sigmund Freud's time, however, hysteria was a genuine illness. A mysterious disease that seemed to afflict a great many women back then. The young doctor Freud wanted to help his hysterical female patients—and in working with them, he developed psychoanalysis. In episode 2, we tell how hysterical female patients helped Freud develop psychoanalysis. And why he is nevertheless criticized today, particularly for his view of women. Interviewee: Georg Markus, Kurier columnist and author of the biography "Sigmund Freud: The Man and the Doctor. 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 credit: 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!!! Note: This is a re-upload of the episode, where a technical issue has been resolved.