“Cocaine is a hell of a drug,” as Rick James would say, but who would have thought it would be used by one of the greatest minds in the world medicine. Sigmund Freud is known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. His ideas became the building blocks of psychology. He provided a lot of insight into the human mind and thoughts on how to deal with problems within it. It's a little hard to believe, considering he was probably crazy half the time. He helped pave the way for ideas in psychology today. Sigmund has aged with his ideas. He is dead, but are his ideas still alive? In this article I will research the ideas and methods of Sigmund Freud as they relate to the treatment of neurosis and psychosis. First of all, I will explain what psychoanalysis is, with neurosis and psychosis. I will also explain how psychoanalysis came to be and describe the methods of psychoanalysis. Finally, I will use all my research to find the answer to whether Sigmund Freud's ideas and thoughts on psychoanalysis are still alive or just an outdated memory. Psychoanalysis is defined by the World English Dictionary as a method of study of the mind and treatment. mental and emotional disorders based on the revelation and investigation of the role of the unconscious. It is medically defined as a man's unconscious motivations and desires seen through different issues during his daily life (Coriat 13-14). Neurosis is defined by the World English Dictionary as a relatively mild mental disorder, characterized by symptoms such as hysteria, anxiety, depression, or obsessive behavior. Psychosis is defined by the World English Dictionary as any form of serious mental disorder in which the individual's contact with reality becomes severely distorted. Psychoanalysis is above all thinking in the middle of a paper....implicit memories do not function during the first two years of life, which coincides with the theories of Freud (Solms). So to answer the question of If Sigmund Freud's ideas and methods are dead, they may have been dead at one point, but they are being reborn. The psychologist around me does not use all of his methods or agree with all of his theories, but it cannot be denied that they are still valid and fully helping in today's time. Works Cited Pulver, Sydney E. "The manifest dream in psychoanalysis: a clarification". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 35.1 (1987): 99-118. Solms, Mark. “Freud returns”. American Scientific Mind 17.2 (2006): 28. MasterFILE Premier. Internet. May 7, 2014. Coriat, Isador Henry. What is psychoanalysis? Moffat, Yard, 1917.Alexander, Franz. Psychoanalytic therapy: principles and application. Flight. 1946. University of Nebraska Press, 1980.