sion as a device operating unconsciously to make the memory of painful or threatening events inaccessible to the conscious mind. Resistance is defined as the unconscious defence against awareness of repressed experiences in order to avoid the resulting anxiety. He traced the operation of unconscious processes, using the free associations of the patient to guide him in the interpretation of dreams and slips of speech. He also developed the theory of transference, the process by which emotional attitudes, established originally toward parental figures in childhood, are transferred in later life to other. The end of this period was marked by Freud's most important work, The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. Here Freud analysed many of his own dreams recorded in the 3-year period of his self-analysis, begun in 1897 (“Freud: Interpretation Of Dreams”). This work expounds all the fundamental concepts underlying psychoanalytic technique and doctrine. In 1902 Freud was appointed a full professor at the University of Vienna. This honour was granted not in recognition of his contributions but as a result of the efforts of a highly influential patient (“Freud”). The medical world still regarded his work with hostility (“Freud”). As a result, Freud continued to work virtually alone in what he called “splendid isolation.” In 1904, Sigmund Freud published the book, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, which explored everyday errors in speech, which he believed, were of interpretable importance (Appignanesi). These "Freudian slip's" were contrasted dreams in the sense that they can arise from immediate hostile, jealous, or egotistic causes.Freud stated that sexuality was of importance in human behaviour. He derived his attitudes toward women and his beliefs about the roles of individual sexes from personal experiences in the strict culture of the time. He made clear his views on a woman’s ro...
