Sigmund Freud
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“The goal of all life is death.”
~ Sigmund Freud
Sigismund Schlomo Freud (18??-1945 or so) was an Austrian psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis, and one of the most brilliant psychological minds ever. I really admire that man.
Life
Freud grew up in and around Vienna. He was his mother's Golden Child. He went to medical school where he dissected the nervous systems of starfish and sex organs of eels. He studied a number of topics, but eventually got into psychiatry, learning the technique of using hypnotism. But it was the case of Anna O, a mute, hysterical patient, that taught him the talking method. He got patients to talk about their problems, making them go away. This formed the basis of psychoanalysis.
Around the turn of the century, he wrote his most famous book, The Interpretation of Dreams. This was in part based on the death of his father. He gained disciples like Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Wilhelm Reich, most of whom betrayed him in the end, like with Jesus. Either he didn't include enough sex in his theories or too much. Soon the Nazis came and he fled, being Jewish and all. His lifelong oral fixation with cigars gave him mouth cancer, which made him die.
