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| - Sigmund Freud is credited with being the father of psychoanalysis. His work involved treating pathologies believed to have originated in the psyche. He was also deeply interested in the effects of cocaine. This interest is expressed in a quote attributed to him that described cocaine use as giving "exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy version."
A version of the quote appeared in a screenshot of a Wikipedia article shared on X on Oct. 23, 2024. At the time of this writing, the post had received more than 100,000 views.
In the Wikipedia article, the quote is credited to Freud's work, Über Coca. This attribution is correct, though the quote appears slightly different in a translated version of Freud's work.
The quote in question also appears in Freud's book "Cocaine Papers," which contains the writings of the Viennese neurologist surrounding his research and experimentation with cocaine. The book includes "all of Freud's 'cocaine papers, his letters, notes, dreams, and recollections on the subject, together with the most pertinent writings from the 19th century to the present on Freud and cocaine," according to the University of California, San Diego Library.
The entirety of the book is published on the internet archive website, Wayback Machine. The quote is found on page nine of this version, which reads:
[Cocaine provides] exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy version …. You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work…. In other words, you are simply normal, and it is soon hard to believe that you are under the influence of any drug…. Long intensive mental or physical work is performed without any fatigue…. This result is enjoyed without any of the unpleasant after-effects that follow exhilaration brought about by alcohol…. Absolutely no craving for the further use of cocaine appears after the first, or even repeated, taking of the drug; one feels rather a certain curious aversion to it.
According to the book, Freud began researching and experimenting with cocaine in the late-19th century. His collection of writings was translated into English in 1963 and published in a collection in 1974.
Ernest Jones, described in the book as Freud's personally selected biographer, included the quote in a piece from his work, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud."
At the time the quote was written, Freud was 28 years old. The quoted passage was originally published in 1884 or 1885; some accounts vary on the exact date in the book Über Coca.
The original Freud Über Coca used "expressions uncommon in a scientific paper" to describe the use and effects of cocaine, its background and history, as well as a "number of self-observations in which he had studied the effects on hunger, sleep, and fatigue."
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