Sigmund Freud

Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, whose theories of the unconscious reshaped twentieth-century thought.

Specifications & Metrics

lifespan

1856-1939

nationality

Austrian

tradition

Psychoanalysis

Core Principles & Analysis

• The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) presented dream analysis as the royal road to the unconscious.
• The structural model divided the mind into id, ego, and superego, arising through psychosexual development.
• Whatever its scientific standing today, psychoanalysis's vocabulary entered general culture permanently.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Sigmund Freud