What is Psychoanalysis psychoanalysis is very familiar for the
wide public after it has been either rejected or adulated for a
long time. But, as a paradox, the success achieved for example
in the fifth decade, especially in Europe, estranged it from its
essence. Psychoanalysis spread everywhere but not only due to
the interest incited by its therapeutical method. It could even
say that therapy was shadowed by the virtues of its application
to other domains. Psychoanalysis applied in literature,
sociology, anthropology, ethnology, religion and mythology
incited the interest of a public that had no inclination towards
the clinical realm. Sigmund Freud (left) with his friend Wilhelm
Fliess. Beside Freud, Fliess played an important role in the
birth of psychoanalysis Finally, psychoanalysis also
distinguished itself through media using the most common means:
radio, TV or film scripts. Famous movies put an emphasis on
psychoanalysts. There was even a movie dedicated to Sigmund
Freud which presented the incertitud