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Article: Freud, Sigmund
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Freud, Sigmund
In 1856 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was born above a blacksmith shop in the Moravian town of Freiberg, his father an unsuccessful wool merchant. The family moved to Leipzig, then to Vienna, but continued to experience economic hardship. His mother
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young, beautiful, and dynamic
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was the center of his emotional life while his father was described as distant and ineffectual. Freud came of age during a renewal of anti-Jewish sentiment in Vienna after a
more liberal policy had encouraged the belief that people would be judged on their merits rather than their religion.
Freud earned his medical degree at the University of Vienna and became an ...
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