Sigmund Freud

FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences & psychoanalysis; HISTORY of psychoanalysis; PSYCHOANALYSTS; PSYCHIATRISTS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; HISTORY of psychology; EGO (Psychology); SUPEREGO; JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; ADLER, Alfred, 1870-1937; ERIKSON, Erik, 1902-1994

VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIAReport Available

The article reviews the upbringing and career of Austrian medical doctor, psychologist, philosopher and author Sigmund Freud. The author reviews how, despite volumes of criticism of his work, the "father of psychoanalysis" is considered one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Freud's upbringing in Vienna, Austria is discussed, as his career in medical school. Freud had to escaped Austria in 1937 when the Nazis annexed Vienna.