Sigmund Freud was a neurologist widely renowned for his research in psychology with things like dreams, egos, and human drive including his extensive psychoanalysis research. However, what many people don’t know is that Sigmund Freud also dabbled in the research of cocaine, claiming that it was a cure for many mental and physical problems. He publicly recommended it, writing several articles on the drug between 1883 and 1887 as well as personally using the drug for depression, migraines, and nasal inflammation until 1896. He used the drug up and became addicted to it until nearly killing a patient while under the influence of cocaine and while treating her with the it during surgery. After this incident, he valued his career too much to continue his use of cocaine and supposedly quit his addiction.
Recently, a very valuable online resource including a collection of links to Freud and his works has been discontinued and no longer available. Fortunately, with lots of research and with helpful online tools, we have re-purposed this archive and made it available below.
The Freud Archives
This collection of links points to Internet resources related to Sigmund Freud and his works. Included in this collection are libraries, museums, and biographical materials, as well as materials in the Brill Library archives.
- The Freud Museum (London): Our best friends on the Internet, and a great site by which to continue your journey. For those interested in obtaining photographs for personal and/or publication purposes, this is your place.
- Freud Museum (Wien): Another excellent site, which features home movies of Freud and the only recording of his voice. For the Freud fetishist in all of us!
- Vienna, Austria: Information about Sigmund Freud.
- Sigmund Freud Overview: {Biographical materials and commentaries}
- From the Freud Archives: The latest information on the Rescheduled Freud Show, direct from the Library of Congress
- The Sigmund Freud Archives and the Cancellation of the LOC Exhibit: memo from Dr. Harold Blum
- Before the Controversy: The Freud Exhibit at the Library of Congress
- The full spectrum of informed opinion… : Text and list of signatories to July 31, 1995 letter to the Library of Congress
- The Sigmund Freud Museum
- Freud as Collector
- Freud Pilot Project at the Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities.
Freud Texts on the Internet
While most of Freud’s work remains under copyright, certain early (and unfortunately, inferior) translations of Freud’s work are in the public domain. Below our links to these texts, courtesy of Psychweb. (Please note: we cannot vouch for the accuracy of these texts, nor for their conformity to copyright laws)
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) (3rd edition) (A.A. Brill translation)
- Freud, Sigmund: The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, trans. by A. A. Brill (HTML at York)
- Freud, Sigmund: Psychopathology of Everyday Life, trans. by A. A. Brill (HTML at York)
A number of excerpts from the writings are also scattered across the numerous websites featuring Freud’s work.
- from “Repression” (1915)
- Manuscript page from the Library of Congress from A Seventeenth Century Demonological Neurosis” (1923)
- The Structure of the Unconscious: from “An Outline of Psycho-Analysis” (1938)
In addition, the diligent browser may happen upon a stray letter of Freud’s, or reference thereto, as with the following finds.
- Brief an Dr. Hermann Swoboda, 29.11.1901 (Long excerpt in German only)
- Freud to Wilhelm Fliess (15.10.97)
Writings on Freud
The following are links to writings of interest on Freud, including some general biographical and bibliographic information as well as work of more concentrated merit.