Sigmund Freud
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Core Identity: Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, establishing a clinical method, psychological theory, and cultural-interpretive framework Foundational Thesis: Freud posited that both normal and neurotic thought and behavior are governed by largely unconscious drives, repressed wishes, and intrapsychic conflicts among the id, ego, and superego Contemporary Significance: Even amid scientific critiques of psychoanalytic testability, Freud's concepts of the unconscious, defense mechanisms, transference, and "Freudian slips" reshaped 20th-century psychiatry, humanities, and popular self-understanding 1856–1881 (Moravia to Vienna Medical Degree): Moved with his family to Vienna in 1860; graduated from Sperl Gymnasium in 1873 and earned his MD in physiology and neurology at the University of Vienna in 1881 under Ernst von Brücke 1882–1886 (General Hospital, Paris & Private Practice): Trained at Vienna's General Hospital (1882–1885), studied hysteria under Jean-Martin Charcot at Salpêtrière in Paris (1885–1886), married Martha Bernays (1886), and established his Berggasse 19 practice 1895–1905 (Birth of Psychoanalysis): Co-published Studies in Hysteria with Josef Breuer (1895), coined "psychoanalysis" (1896), conducted his self-analysis (1897), and published The Interpretation of Dreams (1899/1900), The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904), and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
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person-sigmund-freud
Canonical Name
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud)
Lifespan & Origin
Born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Příbor, Czech Republic); died September 23, 1939, London, England
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person
Ontology Subclass
Neurologist / Founder of Psychoanalysis / Theorist
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schema:Person, Psychoanalysis, Neurology, DepthPsychology, UnconsciousMind
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud), Wikidata
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