Biography and Legacy of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, which is now known as Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856. He was the firstborn child in his family. He had two brothers and five sisters. When Sigmund was four years old his family moved to Vienna a town where he lived the rest of his life. He don’t chose to do just any career his choices were very limited because he was Jewish. In the year 1881 he got his medical degree from the University of Vienna, the very next year after his graduation he got engaged and married. From this marriage he had six children; out of the six children that he had only one (the youngest name Anna) became a distinguished psychoanalyst following her father. Sigmund started to treat various psychological disorders; he became more of a scientist than a doctor. He was really influenced by the work of his friend and by Viennese colleague, Josef Breuer and their discoveries. In the year 1886 Freud opened his first neurologist office in Vienna, Rathausstrasse 7. He started to make theories on the mind. Freud also published Studies on Hysteria with Josef Breuer in 1895. In 1902 he became a professor at the University of Vienna which he had attended himself. By 1908 he established a Psychoanalytic society in Vienna. In 1923 he suffered from cancer and had surgery he continued with his work and in 1939 he died. Sigmund Freud was a very smart man. He was a Psychiatrist, he came up with a lot of theory is. Some of the major theories that Sigmund Freud are: The Conscious and Unconscious Mind, The Id, Ego and Superego, Life and Death Instincts, Psychosexual Development, Defense Mechanism. What is a Freudian Slip. Sigmund Freud received a lot of criticism over his work by people in his life time and now days too. One of Sigmund favorit...

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