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Essay on Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and father of psychoanalysis, is by and large recognized as one of the most influential and trustworthy thinkers of the twentieth century. Working at first in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer, Freud elaborated the theory that the intelligence is a complex energy system, the structural investigation of which is proper province of psychology.
He articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, of infantile sexuality, of repression, and proposed a tri-partite account of the mind's structure, all as fraction of a radically new conceptual and therapeutic frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions. Not with standing the multiple manifestations of psychoanalysis as it exists today, it can in approximately all fundamental respects be traced directly back to Freud's original work.
Additionally, Freud's innovative treatment of human actions, dreams, and indeed of cultural artifacts as invariably possessing implicit symbolic significance has proven to be extraordinarily fecund, and has had massive implications for a wide variety of fields, including anthropology, semiotics, and artistic creativity and appreciation in addition to psychology. However, Freud's most significant and frequently re-iterated claim, that with psychoanalysis he had invented a new science of the mind, remains the subject of much critical debate and controversy.
Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856, in a small town Freiberg in Moravia. His father was a wool merchant with a keen mind and a good sense of humor. His mother was a lively woman, her husband's second wife and 20 years younger. She was 21 years old when she gave birth to her first son, her darling, Sigmund. Sigmund had two older half-brothers and six younger siblings.
When he was four years old his family moved to Vienna, where Freud was to live and work until the last year of his life. In 1937 the Nazis annexed Austria, and Freud....
