Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
Birth Name: Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Known AS: Sigmund Freud
Nickname: Sick Man Freud
Father: Jacob Freud (wool merchant)
Mother: Amalia Freud (née Nathansohn)
Wife: Martha Bernays ( m. 1886)
Date of Birth: 06 May 1856
Birth Place: Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Příbor, Czech Republic)
Date of Death: 23 September 1939 (aged 83)
Death Place: London, United Kingdom
Cause of Death: Euthanasia
Remains/Tomb: Cremated, Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
Gender: Male
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Marital Status: Married
Education:
- High School: Leopoldstadt Gymnasium, Leopoldstadt, Austria (1873)
- Medical University: University of Vienna (MD, 1881)
- Neurologist
- Professor: Neuropathology, University of Vienna (1902-38)
- Neurology
- Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Goethe Prize (1930)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London)
Executive Summary: The father of Psychoanalysis
Influenced By:Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Known For
- Sigmund Freud is considered as The father of Psychoanalysis.
- He is best known for his tendency to trace nearly all psychological problems back to sexual issues.
Major Contributions:
- The Conscious and Unconscious Mind
- The Id, Ego, and Superego
- Life and Death Instincts
- Psychosexual Development
- Defense Mechanisms
Major Writings:
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1900, psychology)
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901, psychology)
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905, psychology)
- Totem and Taboo (1913, psychology)
- On Narcissism (1914, psychology)
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920, psychology)
- The Ego and the Id (1923, psychology)
- The Future of an Illusion (1927, psychology)
- Civilization and Its Discontents (1929, psychology)
- Moses and Monotheism (1939, psychology)
Family/Relatives:
- Father: Jacob Freud (wool merchant, 1815-1896)
- Mother: Amalia Freud (née Nathansohn) (1835-1930)
- Wife: Martha Bernays (b. 1861, m. 1886, d. 1951)
- Son: Martin
- Son: Ernst
- Son: Oliver
- Daughter: Sophie (1893-1920)
- Daughter: Mathilde
- Daughter: Anna Freud (child psychologist, 1895-1982)