What is the origin of your theories and what evidence do you have to back them up? Sigmund Freud developed many theories in an effort to answer the mystery of a person’s conscious and subconscious. The evidence for these theories came through years of analysis of patients and himself. In fact many of his ideas and beliefs came from his own psychoanalysis. His invention of “psychoanalysis” ha allowed us to better understand the Oedipus …showed first 75 words of 792 total…

…showed last 75 words of 792 total…from a conversation he had with a local boy and the Egyptian birds he had learned about in church. He also discovered that external forces could effect a dream. In several studies he would put cologne in front of a patient and they dreamed they were in Cairo acting as a hero, and in another incident a man dreamed of a bright glow when in reality his baby was on fire in the next room.