Labels:text | man | human face | person | screenshot | human beard OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Freud, Sigmund Sigmund Freud In the 1900s members of the medical community poured scorn on Freud's theory that hysterical trauma is sexual in nature; later, feminists derided his concept of "penis envy." Yet the ideas of the controversial Austrian neurologist, who became the founding father of psychoanalysis, remain fundamentally influential today. The son of a middle-class Jewish merchant, Freud was raised in Vienna and conducted much of his research there. By 1900 he had studied medicine as well as neurology, and through intense self-analysis had worked out his key notions - such as the "Oedipus complex" (a neurosis induced by a child's sexual desire for a parent), repression, and the relationship between manifested illness and the subconscious. He also evolved a technique for self-discovery through analyzing dreams. Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst, 1856-1939 Freud's last years were disrupted by Nazism, and he died soon after escaping to London. The essence of his work lived on, however, in theories developed by such figures as his daughter, Anna, and the influential psychologist Carl Jung. CHRONOLOGY
