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Sigmund Freud is born to Jacob and Amalia Freud.
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Freud begins his medical studies at the University of Vienna.
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Conducts medical research in Trieste (Triest, then part of Austria, now in Italy). Returns to Vienna to work in physiology with Ernst Wilhelm Brücke.
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Changed his first name from Sigismund to Sigmund
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Serves his compulsory one year of miltary duty.
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Freud received his doctorate degree in medicine.
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Research and experimentation with cocaine. He publishes the monograph "Über Coca" ("On Coca"), but his attempt to cure a morphine-addicted friend with doses of cocaine turns out badly.
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Freud sets up his private medical practice in Vienna.
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Marries Martha Bernays.
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First use of hypnosis. Meets Wilhelm Fliess, with whom Freud later develops his first ideas on psychoanalysis and the “Oedipus complex.”
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Began formulating his seduction theory.
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First use of the term “psychoanalysis”.
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Self-analysis begins, altering some of the theories on neuroses that Freud had developed with Josef Breuer (1895).
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Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) in November (dated 1900).
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Travels to the U.S. with C.G. Jung in September to give lectures.
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Totem and Taboo was published.
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Published Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which introduced his concept of the death instinct.
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Published The Ego and the Id and was diagnosed with jaw cancer.
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Civilization and its Discontents was published.
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Freud receives the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt.
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Corresponded with Albert Einstein.
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In Berlin, Freud’s books are publicly burned by the Nazis.
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Freud died of cancer in London.
