Sigmund Freud 6.05.1856- 23.09.1939

Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and father of psychoanalysis, is generally recognised as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century.
Working initially in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer, Freud elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system, the structural investigation of which is proper province of psychology.
He articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, of infantile sexuality, of repression, and proposed a tri-partite account of the mind's structure, all as part of a radically new conceptual and therapeutic frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions.
Notwithstanding the multiple manifestations of psychoanalysis as it exists today, it can in almost all fundamental respects be traced directly back to Freud's original work.

About Sigmond Freud
BORN : May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia
1881 : Earns medical degree
1885 : Receives appointment as lecturer in neuropathology,
University of Vienna1886 : Begins private neurology practice in Vienna;
marries Martha Bernays
1900 : Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
1910 : Establishes International Psychoanalytic Association
1938 : Emigrates from Vienna to London
DIED : September 23, 1939, in London

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In mid-March 1938, when Freud was eighty-one, the Nazis took over Austria, and after some reluctance, he emigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague, Anna, "to die in freedom."
He got his wish, dying not long after the Nazis unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Listening to an idealistic broadcaster proclaiming this to be the last war, Freud, his stoical humor intact, commented wryly, "My last war."


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He is standing 4th from left (with beard)

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amalia freud.

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View of Tabor street. vienna (1899)

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Engagement album photographs of Martha Bernaysin 1880 and of Freud and Martha in 1886

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"A Project for a Scientific Psychology"Holograph manuscript, 1895 [published 1950]

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Freud's sketch of his roomat the General Hospital in Vienna

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Freud's translation ofCharcot's lectures into German

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"The Committee:"(left to right seated) Freud, Sàndor Ferenczi, and Hanns Sachs (standing) Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, and Ernest Jones

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Group photo taken at Clark University; Worcester, September 10, 1909

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Telegram Freud sent to his wife Martha from Worcester, 1909

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International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar

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Freud at a psychoanalytic congress in The Hague, 1920

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International Psychoanalytic Congress, The Hague

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International Psychoanalytic CongressOxford Panoramic photograph, 1929

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Sigm. Freud Gesammelte Schriften.

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Carl Jung

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Alfred Adler's U.S. immigration card, 1933

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Sigmund Freud, 1926Chalk on paper

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Freud contemplating figure[possibly Javanese], 1937

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Portrait of Freud with inscription in Freud's hand: "There is no medicine against death, and against error no rule has been found"

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The Interpretation of Dreams 2 votes (33%)
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1 vote (16%)
Moses and Monotheism 1 vote (16%)
Civilization and Its Discontents 0 votes (0%)
The Future of an Illusion 0 votes (0%)
The Ego and the Id 2 votes (33%)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle 0 votes (0%)
On Narcissism 0 votes (0%)
Totem and Taboo 0 votes (0%)
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 0 votes (0%)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 0 votes (0%)
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 0 votes (0%)
Studies on Hysteria 0 votes (0%)
total: 6 votes

Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Although Freud's writings were not always perfectly systematic, the received views of his theories generally include the following hypotheses:Human development is best understood in terms of changing objects of sexual desire.
The psychic apparatus habitually represses wishes, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature, whereby they become preserved in one or more unconscious systems of ideas.
Unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips") and symptoms.
Unconscious conflicts are the source of neuroses. Neuroses can be treated through bringing the unconscious wishes and repressed memories to consciousness in psychoanalytic treatment.
The name Freud is generally pronounced /fɹɔɪd/ in English and /frɔɪt/ in German.
He is commonly referred to as "the father of psych

super-ego corresponds to conscience.
Ego is a vaguely demarcated region of the psyche that has
1)id lying on the physical/somatic side of it from which it accepts commands such as get me food, get me warmth, get me sex etc. and a portion of the id's energy
2)the external world on another interface from which it accepts stimulii and runs the reality-check, the id is blind to the external world it just communicates the body's needs and desires to the ego
3)the super-ego which censures and punishes socially unacceptable actions
Strain between the ego and the id is known as neurosisStrain/break between the ego and the external world is known as psychosis
The ego's challenge is to balance these three while maintaining its integrity.
This, so far, is my understanding of it