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Sigmund Freud was born Freiberg, Moravia on the 6 May 1856. His father was a textile dealer, named Jacob who married for the first time when he was seventeen and had two children Emanuel and Philipp.

After his first wife died he married a woman named Rebecca but little is known of this relationship.

Jacob Freud married again for the third time a young woman of twenty, Amalia Nathansohn. Their first child was Sigmund, followed by Julius, who died at eighteen months, Anna, Rosa, Mitzi, Dolfi, Pauline and Alexander.

When Sigmund Freud was four Jacob’s business ran into difficulties and the family moved to Vienna, Austria.

Sigmund Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna under Josef Breuer, and graduated with a medical degree in 1881.

Freud worked at the General Hospital in Vienna, and then he went to Paris in 1885 to study Jean Martin Charcot. After returning to Vienna Freud married Martha Bernays, and they had six children.

Freud opened a private practice, their address from 1891 was Berggasse 19, and the family lived at this address until the Nazis forced Freud to leave.

In 1900 Freud published his first major work “The Interpretation of Dreams” which established the importance of psychoanalytical movement. In 1902 Freud was appointed Ausserordentlicher Professor and he published another work “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.”

At the suggestion of a disciple, Freud founded in 1902 the Psychological Wednesday Society, later transformed into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

From 1902 until 1938 he was a professor of neuropathology at Vienna. Freud produced during the first three decades of the 20^th century a plethora of distinguished books and monographs on psychoanalysis.

He developed a method for treating hysteria by hypnosis. His theory that dreams are an unconscious representation of repressed desire, especially sexual desires brought him deserved world-wide fame.

 

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