Why did Freud eventually start suffering from psychosomatic disorders?

Because karma has an unforgiving understanding of irony.

Because sometimes a cigar isn't just a cigar

Eventually started? I don't think that man was ever really right in the head. It's my personal theory that all his messed up theories were based on himself and it was his attempt to pass off his insanity as normal. And then it caught up with him. Sorry, not much of a Freud fan (obviously) haha

I did not know he did coke! Really, a cocaine user and he has been given a throne in field of mind understanding?

Because of what all those sickos confessed to him over all those years.


And because of his cigars.

I don't know and I don't care too. We here in Europe do not worship him and I personally think, it is good so. He was wrong in most he wrote.

Because he finally came to the realization that most of what he said was complete sh1t, and that he couldn't do anything about it because he had already convinced the world that the superego was fact and everything is about sex.

RE: that level of objectivity and rationalization and questioning of reality will eventually lead to losing a grip on oneself and reality?

It is such a fine line. When I walk it, I feel like I am on a tightrope. The trick is to hold an extremely centered balance between reality and perception. It is so easy to slip into paranoia via objectivity.

If you can hold position, you can see just how much of our collective reality is interwoven. You catch fate's hand, God's hand, kharma's hand, universal energy...it can be addictive. If your mind isn't healed enough from its past hurts, you can suffer tremendously at this level. It is not for the faint at heart.

I suspect Freud did not excise his personal demons before he began his tightrope walk. Perhaps that energy visited him so that he could learn in himself what could cause his system to respond in such a way...so that someday, through his self knowledge, he could apply what he had learned to help heal others.

From wikipedia:
Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine as a stimulant as well as analgesic. He wrote several articles on the antidepressant qualities of the drug and he was influenced by his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, who recommended cocaine for the treatment of the "nasal reflex neurosis." Fliess operated on Freud and a number of Freud's patients whom he believed to be suffering from the disorder, including Emma Eckstein, whose surgery proved disastrous.[31].

Freud felt that cocaine would work as a panacea for many disorders and wrote a well-received paper, "On Coca," explaining its virtues. He prescribed it to his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow to help him overcome a morphine addiction he had acquired while treating a disease of the nervous system.[32] Freud also recommended it to many of his close family and friends. He narrowly missed out on obtaining scientific priority for discovering cocaine's anesthetic properties (of which Freud was aware but on which he had not written extensively), after Karl Koller, a colleague of Freud's in Vienna, presented a report to a medical society in 1884 outlining the ways in which cocaine could be used for delicate eye surgery. Freud was bruised by this, especially because this would turn out to be one of the few safe uses of cocaine, as reports of addiction and overdose began to filter in from many places in the world. Freud's medical reputation became somewhat tarnished because of this early ambition. Furthermore, Freud's friend Fleischl-Marxow developed an acute case of "cocaine psychosis" as a result of Freud's prescriptions and died a few years later. Freud felt great regret over these events, which later biographers have dubbed "The Cocaine Incident."[citation needed] However, he managed to move on, and even continued to use cocaine. Jurgen von Scheidt speculated that most of Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct of his cocaine use.[33]

YES. Definitely. You can't *live* while adhering to that level of principle, it drives you crazy. I'm in the position to know.

COKEHEAD!!! and also it's a psychological fact that when you hang with one type of person (i.e. people with psychosomatic disorders and the like, like he did) you become like those people.

It was all his mother's fault. And his desire to have conjugal relations with her. Oh yeah, while he was coked up.

Because he was a nutcase.