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Founder of psychoanalysis · 1856–1939 · Economics & Ideas

Invented the talking cure in a Vienna consulting room, made the unconscious a household idea, and fled the Nazis at eighty-two.

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“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.”

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

Who Sigmund Freud was

Freud trained as a neurologist and worked on aphasia and cerebral palsy before turning to hysteria with Josef Breuer. He abandoned hypnosis for free association, letting patients talk without direction, and built from that a theory of repression, infantile sexuality and the dynamic unconscious. The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in 1899 and sold poorly for years. The structural model of id, ego and superego came much later. He kept a famous couch and a large collection of antiquities in his study at Berggasse 19, smoked constantly, and endured more than thirty operations for jaw cancer. In 1938 he escaped annexed Austria for London, where he died the next year.

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What convinced you dreams could be read?

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Why give up hypnosis for free association?

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What went wrong between you and Jung?

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How much of your theory would you revise now?

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What was leaving Vienna in 1938 like?

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