Chapter 2: Sisters and Brothers Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Sigmund Freud was born in Vienna, Austria. He was educated in Vienna and received a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1881 before embarking on his career-long study of the human mind as a psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis. It was Freud who mapped much of our understanding of the mind, and his description of the id, ego, and superego are often the starting points for a discussion of forces that govern a person's life. In 1900, Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, a study of the unconscious and subconscious mind, then Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1910); Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1916); Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of Infantile Reminiscence (1916); Totem and Taboo (1918); Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), The Ego and the Id (1927); and Moses and Monotheism (1939). With the rise of Nazism in Germany and Austria, Freud fled Vienna and resettled in London in 1938. He died one year later of cancer. His influence on twentieth-century literature is immense. Author Links Sigmund Freud: Austrian Originator of Psycho-Analysis This site features a brief biography of Freud as well as hypertexts of his work, and links to other Freud sites.

"The Theme of the Three Caskets" Sigmund Freud: Austrian Originator of Psycho-Analysis

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