Young dr. Freud. Pt. 2, Opening the eyes.

Second in a two-part documentary on Sigmund Freud's early work on hysteria and hypnosis in Vienna and Paris and its key role in development of pyschoanalysis in the 1890s. The programme starts at the time of the death of Freud's father, with the younger Freud wondering if dreams could open a way into his own troubled mind. Through his self-analysis he began to develop the theory that dreams are wishes longing to be gratified. Freud's theory that the father was the cause of hysteria through abuse led him to believe he was capable of abusing his own eldest daughter, but he started to have grave doubts about this early theory and decided he was wrong. He now believed that stories of abuse related to hysteria were fantasies embodying wishes, which opened up to him the areas of self-deception, truth and confronting oneself - the birth of psychoanalysis. The programme explores Freud's relationship with his parents; his disappointment in his father and his close relationship with his doting mother, and examines his early childhood memories and experiences. Freud's reaction to his father's death drove him to write 'The Interpretation of Dreams', first published in November 1899. The programme skims over the remainder of Freud's life, concluding that he constructed a view of human nature after examining the darkest depths of his own troubled mind.