Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Freud was born into a Jewish family on May 6th 1856. Little is known of Freud's early life, as he destroyed his personal papers at least twice, once in 1885 and again in 1907. His later papers were closely guarded in the Sigmund Freud Archives and only available to Ernest Jones, his official biographer, and a few other members of the inner circle of psychoanalysis. Freud smoked cigars for most of his life; after having …showed first 75 words of 702 total…

…showed last 75 words of 702 total…consequence of traumatic experiences, and these traumatic experiences were invariably sexual in nature. However, after self-analysis and discovering his 'Oedipus complex', based on fantasy, not on reality, he concluded that although assaults took place in childhood, it could not generally be considered the cause of hysteria or other neuroses. Works Cited: http://allpsych.com/psychology101/sexual_development.html http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/History/ http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/psychoanalysis/freudmainframe.html