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Sigismund Freud was born
Sigismund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia to parents Jacob and Amalia. At the age of 41, Jakob already had two children from a previous marriage, but Sigismund was the 21-year-old Amalia's first born. -
Movws to Vienna
After the failure of his father's business due to economic woes, the Freud family moved to Vienna, Austria and settled in the Jewish neighborhood of Leopoldstadt. -
Graduated from secondary school
Freud graduated summa cum laude from secondary school and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna. -
Recieved his doctorate degree in medicine
Freud successfully completed his medical studies in 1881 and the following year began his medical career in Theodor Meynert’s psychiatric clinic at the Vienna General Hospital. -
Published a monograph on cocaine
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Worked with Charcot at the Salpetriere Hospital on hysteria and hypnosis.
In October of 1885, Freud went to Paris to study Jean-Martin Charcot a renowned neurologist who was conducting scientific research into hypnosis. -
Began his own private practice and married Martha Bernays.
Freud resigned his hospital post in 1886 and set up in private practice specialising in "nervous disorders". The same year he married Martha Bernays the granddaughter of Isaac Bernays, a Chief Rabbi in Hamburg -
Freud's daughter Mathilda (1887-1978) was born and he first met Wilhelm Fliess.
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His son Jean Martin (1889-1967) was born. The boy was named in honor of Freud's early mentor, Jean-Martin Charcot.
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Son Oliver (1891-1969) was born.
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Josef Breuer describes the case of Anna O. with Freud. His son Ernst (1892-1970) was also born.
Anna O. was treated by Breuer for severe cough, paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body, and disturbances of vision, hearing, and speech, as well as hallucination and loss of consciousness. She was diagnosed with hysteria. Freud implies that her illness was a result of the resentment felt over her father's real and physical illness that later led to his death.[1] -
Began formulating his seduction theory. Daughter Sophie (1893-1920) was born.
Freud's seduction theory was a hypothesis posited in the mid-1890s by Sigmund Freud that he believed provided the solution to the problem of the origins of hysteria and obsessional neurosis. According to the theory, a repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse or molestation experience was the essential precondition for hysterical or obsessional symptoms, with the addition of an active sexual experience up to the age of eight for the latter. -
Published Studies on Hysteria with Breuer. Daughter Anna Freud (1895-1982) was born.
Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology: as her father put it, child analysis 'had received a powerful impetus through "the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my daughter, Anna Freud"'.Compared to her father, her work emphasi -
First used the term psychoanalysisin "Zur Ätiologie der Hysterie." His father, Jakob, died the same year.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is considered the father of psychoanalysis, which may be the granddaddy of all pseudoscientific psychotherapies, second only to Scientology as the champion purveyor of false and misleading claims about the mind, mental health, and mental illness. -
Published The Interpretation of Dreams.
The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of Wilhelm Stekel. Freud said of this work, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." -
Published Three Essays on Sexuality.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood. -
Began correspondence with Carl Jung.
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The first International Psychoanalytical Congress was held in Salzburg.
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Visited the United States
Freud made his first and only visit to the United States along with Carl Jung and Sandor Ferenczi. He had been invited by G. Stanley Hall to present a series of guest lectures at Clark University. -
Totem and Taboo was published.
Jung broke from Freud and psychoanalysis. Totem and Taboo was published. -
Published Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Published Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which introduced his concept of the death instinct. -
His grandson, the noted artist Lucian Freud, was born.
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Published The Ego and the Id and was diagnosed with jaw cancer.
The Ego and the Id is a prominent paper by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. It is an analytical study of the human psyche outlining his theories of the psychodynamics of the id, ego, and super-ego, which is of fundamental importance in the development of psychoanalytic. The study was conducted over years of meticulous research and was first published in 1923. -
Civilization and its Discontents was published.
Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Culture"), it is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works.[1] -
Corresponded with Albert Einstein.
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Moved to London
Anna Freud was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo. Freud moved to London with his wife and youngest daughter Anna. -
Freud died of cancer in London
