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Sigmund Freud Essay

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“Man is a wolf to man.” These are the words that surprised millions when Freud first opened the discussion of human nature (Freud). Sigmund Freud, born in 1856 and died in 1939, was known to be the father of psychoanalysis (Jones). He lived his whole life trying to reach into the human unconsciousness and unravel the puzzle of life, human personality, and human nature (Chiriac). Sigmund Freud was influenced by the environment post World War I, and influenced the world through his theories and his publications produced in this era, and a way of thinking beyond reality to interpret mental illnesses and the miracle of the human brain (Sands).
Born May 6th 1856, Sigmund Freud lived in a town called Freiberg, Moravia (Chiriac). His father was …show more content…

Freud also experienced several different and strange phases when his younger brother died which also felt disturbing for a young boy.
Freud’s first playmate as a young child was his nephew (Jones). When Sigmund was four years, due to a failure in his father’s business, the Freud family went to live in their new home in Vienna, where Sigmund grew up (Chiriac). Freud went to the local elementary school, and then goes on with his education at the Sperl Gymnasium, which was a secondary school that prepared students for college, from 1866 to 1873 (Jones). Freud is accepted to enter the University of Vienna when he was seventeen years old, for passing the final exams with superior scores in Greek and Latin, mathematics, history, and the natural sciences (Jones). Freud’s family noticed that Sigmund was very special in his thus encouraged him by letting him stay in a room alone when they were eight people sharing four bedrooms (Jones). As a little child, Sigmund was successful in school and this helped him enter medical school, which was rare for a Jewish boy to enter in his time (Chiriac). He was instructed in a research program in medical school by a great physiology professor called Ernst Brucke (Chiriac). After finishing Medical School in Vienna, Freud married Martha

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