Sigmund Freud
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
T R I S TA N S TA R R
Early Life
Born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Germany which
is known today as Pribor, Czech Republic in a rented room at a locksmith’s house.
Freud’s parents are Jakob and Amalia Freud
He has 9 siblings:
Emanuel, Philipp, Julius, Anna, Regina Debora,
Marie, Esther Adolfine, Pauline Regine, and
Alexander Gotthold Ephraim.
Early Life Continued
Freud graduated from the university of
Vienna in 1881 with his medical degree.
He married Martha Bernays in 1886.
They had six children and eight grandchildren.
His children were Mathilde Freud, Jean-Martin
Freud, Oliver Freud, Ernst Ludwig Freud,
Sophie Freud, and Anna Freud.
Early Life Continued
In 1882, after college, he began to work at
Vienna General Hospital.
There he gathered the information for his book written in 1891 called “In the Aphasias: a Critical Study.”
In 1886 Freud resigned from the hospital and entered a private practice specializing in
"nervous disorders".
Career Kick Start
In the early 1890s, Freud used a form of
treatment modified by what he called his
"pressure technique.” As a result of his use of this procedure most of his patients in the mid1890s reported early childhood sexual abuse. He used these stories as the base for his seduction theory, but then came to believe that they were fantasies. He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of adolescent sexual drive, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies.
Career Continued
Freud published more than 320 different
books, articles, and essays.
A few of his most famous works are:
Studies on Hysteria(1895)
Totem and Taboo(1913)
The Future of an Illusion(1927)
Moses and Monotheism(1939)
The Ego and the ID(1923)
After Career
He resided in London, England just before
World War II when Vienna became a dangerous place for Jews.
His house is now a museum dedicated to him.
Not long afterward, in 1939, he died of cancer in the
T R I S TA N S TA R R
Early Life
Born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Germany which
is known today as Pribor, Czech Republic in a rented room at a locksmith’s house.
Freud’s parents are Jakob and Amalia Freud
He has 9 siblings:
Emanuel, Philipp, Julius, Anna, Regina Debora,
Marie, Esther Adolfine, Pauline Regine, and
Alexander Gotthold Ephraim.
Early Life Continued
Freud graduated from the university of
Vienna in 1881 with his medical degree.
He married Martha Bernays in 1886.
They had six children and eight grandchildren.
His children were Mathilde Freud, Jean-Martin
Freud, Oliver Freud, Ernst Ludwig Freud,
Sophie Freud, and Anna Freud.
Early Life Continued
In 1882, after college, he began to work at
Vienna General Hospital.
There he gathered the information for his book written in 1891 called “In the Aphasias: a Critical Study.”
In 1886 Freud resigned from the hospital and entered a private practice specializing in
"nervous disorders".
Career Kick Start
In the early 1890s, Freud used a form of
treatment modified by what he called his
"pressure technique.” As a result of his use of this procedure most of his patients in the mid1890s reported early childhood sexual abuse. He used these stories as the base for his seduction theory, but then came to believe that they were fantasies. He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of adolescent sexual drive, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies.
Career Continued
Freud published more than 320 different
books, articles, and essays.
A few of his most famous works are:
Studies on Hysteria(1895)
Totem and Taboo(1913)
The Future of an Illusion(1927)
Moses and Monotheism(1939)
The Ego and the ID(1923)
After Career
He resided in London, England just before
World War II when Vienna became a dangerous place for Jews.
His house is now a museum dedicated to him.
Not long afterward, in 1939, he died of cancer in the