Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, a method and theory centred on the unconscious mind, repression, and the interpretation of dreams. Trained in Vienna and Paris, he developed his clinical method from work with patients suffering from hysteria, and published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899 (dated 1900). His later works, including Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents, applied psychoanalytic ideas to culture and religion. After the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 he emigrated to London, where he died in 1939.