Google is paying tribute to the world’s most famous psychoanalyst today, replacing its homepage logo with a doodle to mark Sigmund Freud’s 160th birthday.
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Here’s more from the Google Doodle website: “Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis, the method of resolving mental illness through a dialogue between a doctor and patient”.
The iceberg theory, which explains the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious and how they give birth to id, superego and ego which in turn shape a person’s identity.
The doodle commemorated one of the Frued’s most celebrated theories- the iceberg theory. ALSO READ: Did you know the Father of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud advocated and used Cocaine to Cure Patients? Which is why his theory “Oedipus Complex” owes its name to an ancient Greek play by Euripedes.
Freud was born on May 6, 1856, and spent most of his life in Vienna.
The idea that dreams “mean” anything or that we have an active subconscious mind, is a concept by Freud, an Austrian neurologist, who created an entirely new approach to understanding of human personality.
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The Freudian method of interpretation always delved on exploring the meaning, beyond the surface of things. Thus, the doodle shows that human mind can be divided into three parts, namely, the conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious. With a vast hidden base, the iceberg also references the murky depths of the unconscious mind.
