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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from unconscious conflicts. He was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia (now Czech Republic) to Ashkenazi Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. Sigmund was the first child of his twice-widowed father's third marriage. His father, Jakob, was a Jewish wool merchant who had been married once before he wed the boy's mother, Amalie Nathanson. Freud had five sisters and one brother. He studied Greek and Latin, mathematics, history, and the natural sciences at the Sperl Gymnasium (a secondary school in Europe that students attend to prepare for college) in Leopoldstadt from 1866 to 1873. He passed his M.D. degree in 1881 from the University of Vienna. Freud's creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of the human psyche, a therapy for the relief of its ills, and an optic for the interpretation of culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud's work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. Some of Freud's main works include: - The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) - Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) - The Ego and the Id (1923) - Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) .

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from unconscious conflicts. He was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia (now Czech Republic) to Ashkenazi Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. Sigmund was the first child of his twice-widowed father's third marriage. His father, Jakob, was a Jewish wool merchant who had been married once before he wed the boy's mother, Amalie Nathanson. Freud had five sisters and one brother. He studied Greek and Latin, mathematics, history, and the natural sciences at the Sperl Gymnasium (a secondary school in Europe that students attend to prepare for college) in Leopoldstadt from 1866 to 1873. He passed his M.D. degree in 1881 from the University of Vienna. Freud's creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of the human psyche, a therapy for the relief of its ills, and an optic for the interpretation of culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud's work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. Some of Freud's main works include: - The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) - Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) - The Ego and the Id (1923) - Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) .

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