Sigmund Freud

About the author

Born Sigismund Schlomo Freud in Příbor in 1856, Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis — a clinical method for treating psychic conflict through dialogue, and a sweeping theory of mind that reshaped modern thought. He introduced free association, dream interpretation, and transference analysis, and formulated landmark concepts including the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, repression, and the tripartite model of id, ego, and superego. Though his methods are less dominant in clinical practice today, his ideas continue to permeate psychology, the humanities, and Western popular culture.

He died in London in 1939.