Trauma and Hysteria as Recurrent Themes in the Work of Sigmund Freud

In this as in recent generations, when you ask a person who Sigmund Freud was, perhaps asking a friend or colleague, you will receive an answer along the lines of, "Isn't he the scientist who came up without he idea that all kids want to grow up and marry the person of the opposite sex". Though this may be more or less a general understanding of Freud and the Oedipus Complex, you'll find that as far as most people are concerned, that was the main work, some say only work, he did during his life; focusing on that one theory. Knowledge of the Oedipus Complex is important in understanding mo…