Ramteen Arablui
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At this time, scientists were trying to understand the connection between the brain and the mind, the body and consciousness. One of the most common diagnoses of the time was hysteria.
It was often a kind of catch-all diagnosis for people, especially women, who might have been suffering from symptoms like depression, anxiety, shortness of breath, insomnia, and even something called sexual forwardness. When Sigmund Freud was a medical student studying hysteria, he came to believe that it was a psychiatric disorder.
And after graduating, he opened his own private practice to treat patients and further study the condition.
After Freud's death in 1939, it still took some time for his work on dreams to be taken as serious science.
After Freud, there were others who continued to pursue the study of dreams and the unconscious mind. Specifically, another well-known psychoanalyst, Carl Jung. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences that are embedded in our DNA. An idea he called the collective unconscious.
As time went on, more and more studies on dreams and the unconscious continued to build on one another. And almost 125 years after Freud first published the interpretation of dreams, there's now research that supports the idea that dreams can have a significant impact on our waking life.
That's it for this week's episode. I'm Ramteen Arablui.
This episode was produced by me.
Lawrence Wu.
Victor Ibeez.
Fact-checking for this episode was done by Kevin Vogel.
Thank you to Casey Herman for his voiceover work. This episode was mixed by Andy Huther.
Also, we want your voice on our show. Send us a voicemail at 872-588-8805 with your name, where you're from, and the line you're listening to ThruLine from NPR, and we'll get you on the show. That's 872-588-8805.
Thanks for listening.
Around 200 BC, China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, feared death so badly that he sent an alchemist on voyages across the sea to search for a magic elixir that would give him immortality. After the alchemist disappeared at sea, the legend says the emperor took things into his own hands and died after drinking what he thought was a cure. Around 200 years later, another legend was born.
A holy grail that was thought to hold life-restoring powers for anyone who drank from it. There was the Philosopher's Stone, the Fountain of Youth. And then, in late December of 1899, a scientist named Eli Metchnikoff woke up in Paris to learn that he had done it. He had found the secret to eternal life.
Underneath that headline, it said things like l'élixir de l'éternelle jeunesse, the elixir of eternal youth, l'institut des miracles, the institute of miracles, la vieillesse vaincue, old age defeated.
Eli Metchnikoff had captured the world's attention. For millennia, people had tried to evade death, seeking cures in things like mercury, gold, powders, liquids. But now they had a new tool. Science. And it was miraculous. There were new vaccines. X-rays had just been invented. You could now see what had once been invisible. And Metchnikov had helped to make that happen.
Eli Metchnikoff was hardcore. The man drank cholera in the name of science. He injected himself with disease and he tested the body's power and its limits. Later in his career, his work on the immune system would win him a Nobel Prize. When the world was sick, Eli Metchnikoff tried to cure it. And he made sure people knew.
And his message was clear.
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