Sigmund Freud Essay -- Biography

Sigmund Scholmo Freud was born on May 6, 1865 in Freiburg, Moravia. Freud was orginally born Judaic but changed over to Atheism, later his Jewish past would come back to haunt him. An interesting (yet disturbing) fact is that Freuds mother, who was also his fathers second wife, was only a few years older than his two stepbrothers. galore(postnominal) people believe that this was a cause to why Freud to believe that the psychological guinea pigs are related back to sexual issues in childhood, since he had an psychological issue with this (Isbister, pg 9). As a child, Freud was the favorite among his ten brothers and sisters and the most intelligent. He was the only child among his siblings to get the best education that money could afford. When he was growing up he wanted to study law but instead chose medicine because (his quote from his autobiography) at the time, the theories of Darwin, which were then of interest, strongly attracted me, for they held out hopes of an extraordin ary advance in our understanding of the world and Goethes beautiful essay on nature read aloud in a lecture before I go away for school that decided me to become a medical student. (Strachey, pg.8). At age seventeen Freud went to the University of Vienna and then graduated in 1885 with a doctoral degree in medicine but this was hard to do because of all the negativity towards the Jewish people. During and after his college career he always believed that evolution and psychology find peoples behavior.During college, Freud done an internship at Theodor Meynerts Psychiatric Clinic and studied under Ernst Brucke, a psychology Professor. He did research about cocaine at Theordor Meynerts Pyschiatric Clinic. Midway through the research he believe that cocaine cou... .... According to whatever people this ended psychoanalysis, however, it did not because even today psychologist understood follow Freuds theories by disproving them or proving them. On September 23, 1939, Sigmund Freud died from a physician assistant overdose on morphine because he could not keep the pain from battling jaw and throat cancer, anymore. The twenty-first century was also known as the Freudian century (Thruschwell, pg.7). Sigmund Freud changed the way we think, understand, and look at psychological issues today. Of course, some of his theories has been proven false or has been updated throughout the years but he is still known as the father of psychoanalysis. Even though Freud thought that everyones problems can be traced back to childhood or sexual issues, he created and done so many different good things in the psychological and neurologic field.