Misija Sigmunda Frojda

"Sigmund Freud's Mission" (originally published in 1959) is a lucid and unsparing psychobiographical study in which Erich Fromm applies the psychoanalytic method to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud himself. As a prominent representative of the neoanalytic and humanistic school, Fromm not only deals with Freud's epochal scientific discoveries, but also deeply analyzes his personality structure, childhood, emotions and inner motives that guided his work. Fromm portrays Freud as an exceptionally brilliant, but at the same time deeply dramatic and authoritarian man who saw his own teachings as a secular religion, and himself as a prophet with a special mission to save humanity. The book analyzes in detail Freud's complex relationship with his mother and father, his fear of death, his relationship with women and his inability to accept disagreements among his colleagues, which often led to a break in relations with close students such as Jung and Ranke. The author explains how Freud's own neurotic conflicts and the bourgeois worldview of the late 19th century limited the scope of psychoanalysis, transforming it into a dogmatic movement rather than a liberating humanistic tool. Written incisively, analytically, and extremely accessible, "The Mission of Sigmund Freud" is an invaluable work for understanding the history of psychology and the human frailties behind the great minds.