Sigmund Freud

(1856-1939)
Austrian psychoanalyst


Influences

Education

  • Educated in Vienna where he showed considerable ability at school.
  • University of Vienna (1881)
  • Studied under Charcot (1886)
  • Studied at Nancy (1889)

Career

  • Lecturer in neuropathology (1881).
  • Appointed to an extraordinary professorship in Vienna (1908)
  • Helped to establish the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. (1908)
  • Awarded the Goethe prize (1930)

Publications

  • Studien uberHysterie (1893)
  • Die Traumdeutung, (1900)
  • Totem and Taboo (1913)
  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
  • Ego and ld (1923).

Major Contributions

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