How Did Sigmund Freud Impact Society

Introduction
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychologist who pioneered the study of the conscious and unconscious self. The famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud viewed the self as a multi-sided unit consisting of not only the conscious but also the unconscious realms. Sigmund Freud’s study of the self-conscious mind clearly challenged the way people viewed everyday life, the conservative and religious framework of the 19th century in many ways as well. One of his greatest impacts was how he changed how society viewed people with mental illnesses. Before Freud and his discoveries, mental illnesses were seen as a deterioration or a disease of the brain. Since it was seen as a disease, many of those people were killed. People were constantly killed
Sigmund Freud, born Schlomo Sigusmund Freud, was born May 6th of 1856 in the Austrian town of Freiberg , Moravia into a Jewish merchant family. When he was four years old his family moved to Vienna , the town where he would live and work for most of the remainder of his life. When he was a child, his father and nanny influenced his feeling about faith. This influence of Christianity did not last long though since his nanny died and now it was just his father left to teach him the Bible. Once his father’s business went downhill and his family suddenly became poor though, his father had to hire a tutor instead. This tutor was hired to teach Sigmund Freud about the Bible in Hebrew, but along with this, the tutor also introduced Sigmund Freud to scientific thought. Sigmund was fascinated by this new way of thinking. Though this new way of thinking had a great influence on his life, Sigmund’s strong passion for learning the development of science also drove him further and further away from religion. This new desire for scientific thought caused him to question Christianity and become an