The aim of this paper is to evaluate of the possible "remaining portions" of Freud's cocaine episode on the creation of psychoanalysis creation. Specifically, the author provides a critical, analytical and retrospective examination of this episode. The result of the evaluation calls attention to four elements: the appearance of Freud as a psychiatrist and pharmacologist and the gradual abandonment of this path. But addction eventually became an object of research and self-administration was used as a method of research. In addition, the belief in a model of a magical cure was tested and subsequently abandoned.
Freud; cocaine; psychoanalytical history; addictions