Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, whose theories on the unconscious mind, sexuality, and human behavior profoundly shaped modern psychology and Western thought.

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instanceOf Austrian person
human
neurologist
psychoanalyst
writer
awardReceived Goethe Prize
birthDate 1856-05-06
birthPlace Austrian Empire
Freiberg in Mähren
Moravia
Příbor
burialPlace Golders Green Crematorium
causeOfDeath cancer of the jaw
euthanasia
child Anna Freud
coAuthor Josef Breuer
countryOfCitizenship Austria
Austria-Hungary
deathDate 1939-09-23
deathPlace London
United Kingdom
educatedAt University of Vienna
employer University of Vienna
ethnicGroup Jewish people
familyName Freud
fieldOfWork neurology
psychoanalysis
psychology
psychopathology
fullName Sigismund Schlomo Freud
genre non-fiction
psychology literature
givenName Sigismund
Sigmund
hasHonor Goethe Prize
influenced 20th-century psychology
Alfred Adler
Anna Freud
Carl Jung
Erik Erikson
Jacques Lacan
Melanie Klein
Wilhelm Reich
cultural studies
literary theory
philosophy
knownFor Oedipus complex
defense mechanisms
dream interpretation
founding psychoanalysis
id ego and superego
structural model of the psyche
talking cure
theory of psychosexual development
theory of the unconscious mind
language German
marriageStart 1886
movement modernism
psychoanalysis
notableIdea death drive
free association
pleasure principle
repetition compulsion
repression
transference
notableStudent Anna Freud
Karl Abraham
Otto Rank
Sandor Ferenczi
notableWork Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Civilization and Its Discontents
Studies on Hysteria
The Ego and the Id
The Interpretation of Dreams
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
numberOfChildren 6
occupation author
neurologist
physician
psychoanalyst
university teacher
religion Judaism
residence London
Vienna
spouse Martha Bernays
yearAwarded 1930


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