Sigmund Freud

a.k.a. Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Author Code: GSFX

Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna medical school from 1873 and in 1882 entered the General Hospital of Vienna where he studied under Meynert in the psychiatric clinic. In 1885, he studied in Paris under the famous neurologist Charcot. Together with the Viennese physician Josef Breuer, Freud published The Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomenon in 1893 and Studien uber Hysterie (Studies in Hysteria) two years later. During these years, Freud formulated his psychoanalytical method based on free association and produced his ground-breaking work Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) in 1899. In 1902, Freud established the Psychological Wednesday Circle with his friends Adler, Kahane, Reitler and Stekel. This later became the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society in 1908. He visited the USA in 1909 where he lectured on his findings and was well-received. After 1912, he devoted most of his time directing the Society. Following the First World War, Freud published Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) and The Ego and the ID (1923). In 1930, Freud received the Goethe prize and was given the freedom of the city of Vienna. When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, Freud's books were burned, his paper, the Psychoanalytische Verlag, was destroyed, and his passport was confiscated. Suffering from a very painful cancer of the mouth and throat, Freud was finally allowed to leave Austria after a large ransom was paid to the Nazis. He went to England with his family and died there the following year. Among Freud's other major works are The Origins and Development of Psycho-Analysis (1910), On Narcissism (1914), Repression (1915), Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) and his final work, Moses and Monotheism (1939). The eBooks-Library contains one of the largest collections of Freud's papers and works in eBook form on the internet.