"I am still under the reverberating impact of your lecture, which seemed to me perfection itself." –Jung on Freud's lecture at the first Psychoanalytic Congress
Photo courtesy Library of CongressInternational Psychoanalytic Congress, 1911.
The Rise of Freudian Psychology
The publication of his books helped spread Freud's ideas to a much wider audience. While a growing number of critics attacked Freud's theories, he developed a following among a number of his contemporaries. His relationship with Breuer had deteriorated, mostly due to Breuer's disagreement with Freud's emphasis on sexuality, but theorists such as Carl Jung and Alfred Adler became increasingly interested in Freud's ideas.
The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
In 1902, Freud began hosting a weekly discussion in his home that would later give rise to the first psychoanalytic organization. The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society was first founded in 1908, and the first International Psychoanalytic Congress was held in Salzburg that same year. Eventually, some of Freud's early followers would break from his ideas to form their own schools of thought.
The Psychoanalytic Congress
In 1908, the first international meeting of psychoanalysts was held in Salzburg. Freud was the keynote speaker during the one-day meeting, although a number of other psychoanalysts gave lectures as well. The Psychoanalytic Congress would soon become an annual event, which would continue to fuel the spread and development of psychoanalysis.
