Sigmund Freud Essay -- Biography

Sigmund Scholmo Freud was born on May 6, 1865 in Freiburg, Moravia. Freud was orginally born Jewish but changed over to Atheism, posterior his Jewish past would come back to haunt him. An interesting (yet disturbing) situation is that Freuds mother, who was also his fathers second wife, was only a few years aged(a) than his two stepbrothers. Many people believe that this was a cause to why Freud to believe that the psychological issues 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 x brothers and sisters and the most intelligent. He was the only child among his siblings to get the best breeding that money could afford. When he was growing up he wanted to get law but instead chose medicine because (his quote from his autobiography) at the time, the theories of Darwin, which were thus of interest, strongly attracted me, for they held out hopes of an extraordinary advanc e in our understanding of the earthly concern and Goethes beautiful essay on nature read loud in a lecture before I left for aim 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 leg 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 psychological science determined peoples behavior.During college, Freud through with(p) an internship at Theodor Meynerts psychiatric Clinic and studied under Ernst Brucke, a psychology Professor. He did research active cocaine at Theordor Meynerts Pyschiatric Clinic. Midway through the research he believe that cocaine cou... .... According to some people this ended psychoanalysis, however, it did non because even today psychologist still follow Freuds theories by disproving them or proving them. On September 23, 1939, S igmund Freud died from a physician assistant overdose on morphine because he could not handle the pain from battling jaw and pharynx commodecer, anymore. The twenty-first deoxycytidine monophosphate was also cognize 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 bastard 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.