Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Austrian Father of Pyschoanalysis
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Biographical Chronology - Part 2
More key events in the life of Sigmund Freud. Continued from Freud - Part 1
- 1873 Freud begins his medical studies at the University of Vienna.
- 1876 Conducts medical research in Trieste (Triest, then part of Austria, now in Italy). Returns to Vienna to work in physiology with Ernst Wilhelm Brücke.
- 1879 Serves his compulsory one year of miltary duty.
- 1881 Obtains his medical degree from the University of Vienna.
- 1884-1887 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.
A bust of Sigmund Freud on display
in the London Freud Museum.
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- 1886 Sets up his private medical practice.
- 1886 In September Freud (age 30) marries Martha Bernays (1861-1951). They will have six children, including last-born Anna Freud (1895-1982) who became a noted leader in the field of child psychology.
- 1887 First use of hypnosis. Meets Wilhelm Fliess, with whom Freud later develops his first ideas on psychoanalysis and the “Oedipus complex.”
- 1891 The Freud family moves into a new home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna (see photo). Freud will live here for the next 47 years.
- 1896 First use of the term “psychoanalysis” (die Psychoanalyse), in “Zur Ätiologie der Hysterie.” Freud's father Jacob dies in October.
- 1897 Self-analysis begins, altering some of the theories on neuroses that Freud had developed with Josef Breuer (1895).
- 1899 Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) in November (dated 1900). Many consider Freud's Dreams to be the true beginning of psychoanalysis.
- 1909 Travels to the U.S. with C.G. Jung in September to give lectures. Four years later he and Jung will go their separate ways.
- 1913 Publishes Totem and Taboo offering the theory that society is based on a universal prohibition against incest (contrary to Jung's research).
- 1920 Freud's eldest daughter Sophie (b. 1893) dies.
- 1922 Freud is diagnosed with gum cancer (Gaumenkrebs). Following surgery in 1923 to remove part of his jaw and gums, his condition will steadily worsen until his death.
- 1930 Freud receives the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt. Freud's mother Amalia dies at the age of 95.
- 1932 Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany.
- 1933 In Berlin Freud's books are publicly burned by the Nazis.
- 1936 Freud celebrates his 80th birthday in Vienna.
- 1938 Hitler and the Nazis annex Austria (der Anschluss). Freud and his family flee to England, taking up residence at 20 Maresfield Gardens in the Hampstead section of London (see photo).
- 1939 September 23 - Sigmund Freud dies in London, losing his long battle with cancer.
- 1982 October 9 - Anna Freud (b. 1895) dies in London. She had been devoted to her father, serving as his secretary, manager, nurse, and confidant. She carried on her father's cause after his death, but did not always agree with his theories. Her own interests centered on children's psychology. She frequently traveled to the United States.
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