Sigmund Freud was born on June 6th in 1856 in Freiberg.

His father, Jakob Freud, was 41

years old when he had him, he was a wool merchant. In 1859, he failed in his business and
forced the family to leave his home in Freiberg. They resided in Leipzig and, in 1860, in
Vienna finally.
In 1865, at the age of nine years old, Freud entered the Leopoldstadter Kommunal-
Realgymnasium, where he proved to be an outstanding student and where he graduated in
1873 with honors.
From a young age he felt the vocation of a researcher, specifically in everything related to
physiology. He entered the University of Vienna with 17 years to study law, although he
entered the medical school of the university after listening to a lecture on the essay “On
nature”. He graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1881,after having also completed one year
of compulsory military service. He remained in the University as an assistant in the
physiology laboratory. He specialized in clinical neurology. In 1885, he spent a year in Paris,
in the hospital of the Salpetriere, where he worked with Charcot, at which point his career
took a total turn and he began to take an interest in the human psyche. Charcot was working
on functional nervous diseases, especially hysteria, through hypnotic treatments.
On september 14th in 1886, he married with Martha Bernays, granddaughter of Isaac
Bernays, a rabbi in Hamburg. The couple had six children: Mathilde, born in 1887; Jean-
Martin, in 1889; Oliver, in 1891; Ernst, in 1892; Sophie, in 1893; and Anna, in 1895.
In 1889, already in Vienna again, he collaborated for the first time with Breuer, a Viennese
doctor, who worked along the same lines as Charcot. Between 1896 and 1900, he
elaborates the method and the basic concepts of Psychoanalysis and, later, he applies his
psychoanalytic theories to the global interpretation of personality. In 1911,Freudian theories
spread to North America, where the American Psychoanalytic Association was founded.
In 1923 he was diagnosed with a cancer in the law that required constant and painful
treatment, for which he had to undergo several surgical operations.
On September 21th in 1939, Freud remembered the promise made by his friend and family
doctor, Max Schur, to help him die when jaw cancer became unbearable. The next day he
was given morphine and died at midnight on September 23th in 1939 in the British capital.
Phrase that defines him:
“Before you are diagnosed with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not
surrounded by idiots”