A Brief Biography of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was a very intelligent man who thought the world was a wonderful puzzle that needed to be piece together. He believed that he could make anything that was unrealistic to be realistic. No one or nothing could tell Freud that he was wrong about anything. He had his own techniques to make people believe he was right. Several psychologist and sociologist believed that Sigmund Freud was a fraud and that he was not a real psychologist. People believe that Freud ways of testing his theories were unethical and not scientific. Was Sigmund Freud an amazing psychologist like he believed he was or was he truly a fraud like other psychologist and sociologist believes?

Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, northwest Moravia (Rana 1). When he was younger his parents moved the family to Vienna where he spent the majority of his life. Since Freud was younger he was interesting in many things, but since he is Jewish he didn’t have the opportunity like many other people did to follow all of his dreams. At first Sigmund Freud was home school by his parents, but a few years later his parents decided to enroll him into Spurling Gymnasium. Freud was the best in his class, so he graduated top of his class.

Freud attended the University of Vienna for medicine. After studying medicine at the University of Vienna, Freud worked and gained a lot of respect as a physician. Through his work with respected French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud became fascinated with the emotional disorder known as hysteria. Later, Freud and his friend and mentor Dr. Josef Breuer introduced him to the case study of a patient known as Anna O., who was really a woman named Bertha Pappenheim. Her symptoms included a nervous ...

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...nd other authority figures. Obeying these rules leads to feelings of pride, value and accomplishment. The conscience includes information about things that are viewed as bad by parents and society. These behaviors are often forbidden and lead to bad consequences, punishments or feelings of guilt and remorse. The superego acts to perfect and civilize our behavior. It works to suppress all unacceptable urges of the id and struggles to make the ego act upon idealistic standards rather that upon realistic principles. The superego is present in the conscious, preconscious and unconscious (Cherry 1).

According to Kurzweil, “current Freud bashers benefit from the fact that psychoanalysts did not uncover the roots of the unconscious as Freud and his disciples had hoped” (Kurzweil 35). Freud made people believe that he was he was the one that uncover the unconscious.