Sigmund Freud

Many know Freud as "the father of psychoanalysis", but many do not know that he was born to a poor couple called Jakob Freud and Amalia Nathansohn in Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. Sigmund was born with a caul, which his mother saw as a positive omen for her son’s future.Once grown he attended the University of Vienna at 17, from 1873 to 1881. In 1886, Freud returned to Vienna and opened a private practice specializing in nervous and brain disorders, Freud experimented with hypnotism with his most hysteric and neurotic patients, but he eventually gave up the practice. He switched to putting his patients on a couch and encouraging them to say whatever came into their minds.
Many people ignore the fact that In his 40s, Freud experienced heart irregularities, exaggerated fears of dying and other phobias as well as disturbing dreams. Many, including myself believe this was happening to him because he was involved in the task of exploring his own dreams, memories of childhood. During this self-analysis, he came to realize the hostility he felt towards his father and he recalled his childhood sexual feelings for his mother, who was attractive and protective.
After publishing successful books on the unconscious mind in 1900 and 1901, Freud became a professorship at the University of Vienna, where he had no tolerance for colleagues who disagreed with his theory: Psychoanalytic doctrines. According to Freud, no matter how mature people are, their infancy and childhood experiences influenced their adult lives. Freud believed that while poets and thinkers had known of the existence of the unconscious, he wanted that it received scientific recognition in the field of psychology. Freud stated that the concept of the unconscious was based on the theory of repression. He believed that ideas are repressed, but remain in the mind, then they reappear in consciousness under certain circumstances. The goal of psychoan...