SIGMUND FREUD CHRONOLOGY
Beginning of friendship with Wilhelm Fliess. | |
![]() |
|
![]() |
Freud's friendship with Fliess is to become the central relationship over the next ten years, during which meetings and correspondence with his friend act as a sounding board for all Freud's new ideas. Freud travels to Nancy to perfect his hypnotic technique but the visit taught him the limitations of hypnotic suggestion: "Thinking it would be instructive, I had persuaded one of my patients to follow me to Nancy. The patient was a very highly gifted hysteric, a woman of good birth, who had been handed over to me because no one knew what to do with her. By hypnotic influence I had made it possible for her to lead a tolerable existence... But she always relapsed again after a short time, and in my ignorance I attributed this to the fact that her hypnosis had never reached the stage of somnambulism with amnesia. Bernheim now attempted several times to bring this about, but he too failed." |
![]() |
Freud's first son Jean-Martin is born and named after Charcot. |
![]() |
In a handbook on health he publishes a contribution on "Psychical (or Mental) Treatment". |
![]() |
![]() |