Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Patricia Perez

October 8, 2013

Houston Community College

Author Note

This paper was prepared for Psychology 2301, taught by Professor McGinty

Although Sigmund Freud was not the first person to study psychology, he was the most noted on studying the human behavior. Sigmund Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856, but at the age of 4 years old his family moved to Vienna where he lived and worked the rest of his life. He is the eldest of 8 children born to Jacob and Amalie Freud. Freud was a very intelligent person; he loved to work and study hard. After he finished school he was not sure what he wanted to do with his life. He thought about becoming a doctor since he did practice medicine, but that was not what he really wanted to do. In 1886 he met a woman by the name of Martha, who he married and had 6 children with.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, smoking ...

Statue of Sigmund Freud in London, with the Tavist...

The youngest of his children, Anna, became a psychoanalyst herself. He spent three years at the Vienna General Hospital trying his skills in surgery, internal medicine, and psychiatric. Between all his work at the hospital, his researching, and not being able to spend time with his family, made him become depressed, not to mention the fact that he was not pursuing what he wanted the most. Freud and Martha stayed married until his death in 1939; Martha died 12 years later in 1951.

According to Freud there is conscience and the unconscious. The conscience mind is the part where we acknowledge everything we do. The unconscious mind is things we are not aware of, for example, our dreams. In 1923 Freud formulated a model of the structure of the mind named the 'tripartite', because he distinguished three structural elements within...