Sigmund Freud's Theory: Sigismund Schlomo Freud

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Sigismund Freud Theory
Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born in 1856 on May the 6th. He grew up in the Freiberg, which is located in Austria nowadays, and presently it is called Pribor in the Czech Republic. When he was twenty- two his name changed to Sigmund Freud. Additionally, he is the son of a deeply religious Jewish father and his father was encouraging him to learn more about Hebrew Scriptures. Freud was the oldest of eight children (Nystul, 2011) p.163. Boeree indicated that, “His father was a wool merchant with a keen mind and a good sense of humor. His mother was a lively woman; she was his father second wife and was twenty years younger. She was twenty one years old when she gave birth to her first son, her darling, Sigmund”. His childhood was difficult because Freud had a big family and they were not wealthy. In 1859, he was about four years old when his family moved to Vienna because his father business failure. Clearly, Freud’s family lived in poverty almost all of his early childhood life. Sigmund Freud was the favorite son for his parents and his mother always used to call him Golden Siggie (Husman). His parents notice from his early life that their son was intelligent, …show more content…

He also said this in his book, Civilization and its Discontents: "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. It is still more humiliating to discover how a large number of people living today, who cannot but see that this religion is not tenable, nevertheless try to defend it piece by piece in a series of pitiful rearguard actions." (Freud, 1930). As what he written in his books, giving a simple view about him, it is easy to tell that Freud was very far from being

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