Content Blog:Freud's contribution to understanding the Empire

In Vienna I visited the Freud museum. Freud was an Austrian physician who created psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory and therapy which the goal is to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious  and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association. Freud's contribution to empire is through the psychoanalytic education in "Red Vienna". After the First World War, there was a change from the Habsburg monarchy to the Republic of Austria. This was characterized by new sociopolitical intentions. "Red Vienna" was the center of progressive education. There was a need for child-oriented education. They applied psychoanalytic teaching methods, which offered children freedom and necessary restrictions. August Aichhorn was the leader of the Child Guidance centre of the city in Vienna. Aichhorn was a psychoanalyst and worked with Anna Freud whom she was a teacher. Psychoanalysis then found its way in public institutions.