SIGMUND FREUD

CONTEXT

• born May 6, 1856 in current Czech Republic
• Born into a lower middle class family

FAMILY

• Father (Jakob) was a textile merchant, 40 years old
• Mother (Amalie) was 20,
• Jakob very authoritarian while Amalie was compassionate
• Had 9 siblings

CHILDHOOD

• Happy child with insightful mind
• Moves to Vienna for economic reasons
• Somewhat emotional

HIS ADULTHOOD

• Married Martha Bernays
• Had 6 children

CAREER BEGINNINGS

• In 1873 Freud was graduated from the Sperl Gymnasium
• Attended University of Vienna
• 1882 general hospital as clinical assistant for a psychologist
• In later 1885 Freud left Vienna to continue his studies of neuropathology at the Salpêtrière clinic in Paris

HIS WORKS

• Psychoanalysis
• Sexual behavior
• The stages of the mind
• The psyche
• Dreams

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