Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method and theoretical model for treating psychopathology through dialogue about unconscious conflict. Trained in medicine at the University of Vienna, he developed free association and dream analysis to access unconscious material, and built a lasting model of the mind centered on the id, ego, and superego. He fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London in 1938 and died there in 1939; his work remains foundational to, and contested within, psychology and psychiatry.
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BirthplaceFreiberg in Mahren, Austrian Empire (now Pribor, Czech Republic) 1 Death PlaceHampstead, London, England 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche. 1 Notable WorkThe Interpretation of Dreams (1899) 1 Connections
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Carl Jung, Psychologists Jung broke from Freud's psychoanalysis in 1912 to found analytical psychology, offering a different account of the unconscious centered on the collective unconscious and archetypes rather than sexual instinct.
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First described childhood (infantile) amnesia systematically, though his psychoanalytic explanation has since been superseded by cognitive and neurological accounts.
The concept and its name are drawn directly from Freud's psychoanalytic theory of unconscious motivation.
Described the process of isolation as inserting a gap between a thought and the emotion normally associated with it.
Invoked the concept of regression in his 1900 theory of dreams and elaborated it further in later work, distinguishing three kinds of regression.
Central architect of psychoanalytic defense-mechanism theory, of which repression is the foundational concept.
Regarded sublimation as a sign of maturity and civilization, defining it as the deflection of unacceptable impulses into socially valued activity.
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Schools Founded
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Theories and Concepts Developed
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Source Wikipedia: Psychosexual Development
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Austria, nationality there.
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1. Sigmund Freud
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founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Early life section
the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire
Development section
In 1899, he published The Interpretation of Dreams
Psychoanalytic theory
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founder of psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
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Established in the early 1890s by Sigmund Freud
Analytical psychology
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Jung had already termed his approach analytical psychology (1912), while the approach Freud had founded is referred to as the Psychoanalytic School
Wikipedia: Depth Psychology
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The theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and Alfred Adler are all considered its foundations.
Wikipedia: Psychosexual Development
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According to Sigmund Freud, personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which pleasure-seeking energies from the id become focused on certain erogenous areas.
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