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'''Sigmund Freud''', born '''Sigismund Schlomo Freud''' ([[Sigmund FreudMay 6]] ([[1856 - ]] – [[September 23]] [[1939]]) , was a French [[Jew]]ish-[[Austria]]n [[neurology|neurologist]] and [[psychiatrist ]] who co-founded the [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic school]] of [[psychology]]. Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especially involving the mechanism of [[Psychological repression|repression]]; his redefinition of [[sexual desire]] as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic techniques, especially his understanding of [[transference]] in the therapeutic relationship and the founder presumed value of [[psychoanalysisdream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Sigmund Freud was born to [[Jew]]ish Jewish parents in [[Příbor]] (''Freiberg'' in German), [[Moravia]] (then [[Austrian Empire]], now [[Czech Republic]]), on [[6 May]] [[1856]]. His father Jacob was 41, a wool merchant, and had two children by a previous marriage. His mother Amalia was 21. Owing to his intellect, which was obvious from an early stage of his childhood, his parents favored him over his siblings, and even though they were poor they offered everything to give him a proper education. As a result, Freud did extremely well during his first 8 years of school, but at the age of 17, he had to move to the University in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the time, at which time his grades plummeted.{{psychoanalysis}}
===Medical school===
===Later life===
Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychotherapist, told a colleague about his first visit with Sigmund Freud in the year 1907. Jung had much that he wanted to talk about with Freud, and he spoke with intense animation for three whole hours. Finally Freud interrupted him and, to Jung's astonishment, proceeded to group the contents of Jung's monologue into several precise categories that enabled them to spend their remaining hours together in a more profitable give-and-take. <ref>Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, edited and abridged by Lionell Trilling and Steven Marcus (New York: Basic Books, 1961), p. 253.</ref>