 Freud was born to a wool merchant and his second wife, Jakob and

Amalie, in Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, May

6, 1856. This town is now known as Příbor and is located in the
Czech Republic.
 For most of his life, he was raised in Vienna, and he was married
there in 1886 to Martha Bernays. They had six children. His
daughter, Anna Freud, also became a distinguished psychoanalyst.
 n 1909, Freud came to the United States and made a presentation of
his theories at Clark University in Massachusetts. This was his first
presentation outside of Vienna. By this point, he was very famous,
even with laymen.
 In 1923, at age 67, Freud was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw after
many years of smoking cigars. His treatment included 30 operations
over the next 16 years, according to the PBS program, "A Science
Odyssey."
 In 1873, Freud entered the University of Vienna medical school.
In 1882, he became a clinical assistant at the General Hospital in
Vienna and trained with psychiatrist.
 After this new line of study, Freud returned to his hometown in 1886
and opened a practice that specialized in nervous and brain
disorders. He found that hypnosis didn't work as well as he had
hoped. He instead developed a new way to get people to talk freely.

 Freud also developed what he thought of as the three agencies of

the human personality, called the id, ego and superego. The id is the
primitive instincts, such as sex and aggression. The ego is the "self"
part of the personality that interacts with the world in which the
person lives. The superego is the part of the personality that is
ethical and creates the moral standards for the ego.
 In 1900, Freud broke ground in psychology by publishing his book
"The Interpretation of Dreams.“
He concluded that there were two parts to a dream. The "manifest
content" was the obvious sight and sounds in the dream and the "latent
content" was the dream's hidden meaning.
"In 1901, he published "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life," which
gave life to the saying "Freudian slip." Freud theorized that
forgetfulness or slips of the tongue are not accidental. They are caused
by the "dynamic unconscious" and reveal something meaningful about
the person.
 Freud was a revolutionary in his way of seeing humans and our
minds.
 Freud and the unconscious - he unconscious was his most
revolutionary idea. Freud took this concept one step further, Freud
pointed out that inside each of us, there’s a side we can’t
access directly or in a conscious way. The unconscious is
ignored by the conscious mind. This unconscious mind can
sometimes take us down some difficult roads. It could make us feel
sad without us consciously knowing why or make us have symbolic
dreams. It can even cause certain errors in our speech.
 The power of words - People treasured Freud, among his other
virtues, for being a magnificent writer. Three adjectives that could be
used to describe his work are detailed, clear and elegant. He put a
lot of thought into his word choice to express his thoughts
masterfully. He also made writing a central part of his therapy
 Another look at childhood - Freud believed that childhood is a
significant stage in which events that will influence us throughout our
lives take place. In addition, this influence will happen primarily
through the unconscious. Freud also tells us that sexuality also plays
an important role in childhood. This idea was very important to him.
For him, this sexuality is very present and can have
consequences.

 Conflict and neurosis - Another revolutionary idea that Freud dealt

with revolved around neurosis. Freud suggested that there are
internal conflicts between what we desire (it-instinct) and what we
allow ourselves to do (superego-forbidden in terms of culture or
society). These things make us collapse into neurosis. This
means that neurotic disorders arise from the displacement of the id
to the unconscious by the superego in an attempt to drown them out.