Sigmund Freud

1939:

Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, died in London. WRITTEN BY:  Martin Evan Jay See Article History Sigmund Freud AUSTRIAN PSYCHOANALYST BORN May 6, 1856 Pribor, Czechoslovakia DIED September 23, 1939 (aged 83) London, England SUBJECTS OF STUDY human sexual behaviour primitive culture personality Moses dream FOUNDER OF psychoanalysis VIEW BIOGRAPHIES RELATED TOCATEGORIES psychology psychoanalysis neurology DATES May 6 September 23 RELATED BIOGRAPHIES Pierre Janet Carl Jung Albert Ellis Karl Abraham Karen Horney Josef Breuer Wilhelm Reich Sir James George Frazer Morton Prince Anna Freud Sigmund Freud, (born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic]—died September 23, 1939, London, England), Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of the human psyche, a therapy for the relief of its ills, and an optic for the interpretation of culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud’s work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. If, as the American sociologist Philip Rieff once contended, “psychological man” replaced such earlier notions as political, religious, or economic man as the 20th century’s dominant self-image, it is in no small measure due to the power of Freud’s vision and the seeming inexhaustibility of the intellectual legacy he left behind./.../