Sigmund Freud

Freud {{circa}} 1921<ref>{{Cite web |last=Halberstadt |first=Max |date=c. 1921 |title=Sigmund Freud, half-length portrait, facing left, holding cigar in right hand |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/98514770/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054049/https://www.loc.gov/item/98514770/ |archive-date=28 December 2017 |access-date=8 June 2017 |website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. Following the German annexation of Austria in March 1938, Freud left Austria to escape Nazi persecution. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.

In founding psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfilments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression, and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.

Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and across the humanities. It thus continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate concerning its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or hinders the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. 1940 poetic tribute to Freud describes him as having created "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives". Provided by Wikipedia
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by Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873
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by Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873
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by Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Published 1880
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Published 1880
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by Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
Published 1884
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by Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
Published 1885
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by Charcot, Jean Martin 1825-1893
Published 1886
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by Charcot, Jean Martin 1825-1893
Published 1886
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by Charcot, Jean-Martin
Published 1886
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Published 1886
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by Charcot, Jean-Martin
Published 1886
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by Bernheim , H. (1840-1919)
Published 1888
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by Bernheim, Hippolyte
Published 1888
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by Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
Published 1888
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by Bernheim, Hippolyte 1840-1919
Published 1888
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by Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
Published 1888
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by Bernheim, Hippolyte 1840-1919
Published 1889
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by Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939).
Published 1891
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by Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Published 1891
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