Freud's Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)

Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was born into an assimilated, secular Jewish family in the Moravian town of Freiburg. He settled as a child in Vienna, where he spent the greater part of his life. Freud was a psychiatrist. His fame comes from devising the therapeutic method of psychoanalysis and from formulating a model of the human mind that includes the id, ego, and superego.

Psychoanalysis:
In 1922, Freud presented a lecture at the International Congress of Psychoanalysis in Berlin, entitled ‘Some Remarks on the Unconscious’, which pr...

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