Sigmund Freud was born into a Jewish family with a mother, father, and two half brothers. His father, Jakob, seemed to be a somewhat remote person, and definitely the authoritarian figure in the household. His mother was much more nurturing and emotional with Sigmund. In 1859 the Freud family was compelled for economic reasons to move to Leipzig and then a year later to Vienna, where the family

There is no doubt that Freud's theories and hypothesis' have come from his own life experiences, but the more important question is whether or not the theories were right. Considering the fact that they have still been studied for over a hundred years, I believe that they are.

After graduating from the Sperl Gymnasium, Freud went on to the University of Vienna, where he worked with one of the leading physiologists of their times, Ernst von Brucke. In 1882 Freud entered into the General Hospital in Vienna as a clinical assistant to gain experience from the psychiatrist Theodor Meynert. Then in 1885, Freud became the lecturer in neuropathology after finishing research on the brain's medulla. Right around this time, Freud became very interested in using cocaine as a pharmaceutical drug. Some benefits of the drug were found in eye surgery, but mostly the experiments were disastrous. These experiments

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