Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia. His father, Jacob Freud who was a skilled wool merchant married Amalia Freud who is Sigmund’s mother. Amalia was twenty years younger when she and Jacob married. Sigmund was the first child of eight children, but Jacob his father had two children in his first marriage. Sigmund’s father was born into a Jewish family and left home to get away from the normal Jewish tradition. When Sigmund was four, they moved away from Freiberg to Vienna where he lived most of the rest of his life at. In 1865 when Sigmund was only nine years old he entered high school. He excelled especially well and graduated with honors. While he was in high school he learned and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Freud went to the University of Vienna at seventeen. His original plan was to study law, but instead he joined the medical faculty at Vienna. He graduated from Vienna with a M.D. in 1881. In 1882 he began his medical career at Vienna General Hospital. In 1891 Freud published his first book On the Aphasias: a Critical Study. Freud worked for three years in the hospital and due to his publication of his first book it led to an appointment as being a teacher in neuropathology. He resigned from the hospital it 1886, and also married his wife Minna Bernays. In 1887 they had their first child Mathlide, and had 5 more children after that. Jean-Martin was born in 1889, Oliver in 1891, Ernst in 1892, Sophie in 1893, and Anna in 1895. At 24 Freud started smoking and his colleagues warned him what the effects would do but he ignored them. Due to World War II, Freud and his family had to move away from Vienna because it was a dangerous place for Jews. On September 23, 1939 Freud died due to cancer of the mouth and jaw because of smoking.
Freuds Psychodynamic approach was one of his most famous theories we know, and it is the one that we study about all the time in class. He developed that personality is made up in three parts; the id, ego, and superego. The id is the pleasure principle which means all desires, wants and needs. The ego is reality principle which satisfies the id’s desires in realistic ways. And last the superego which he believed was the last component of personality to develop which tells us what is...
