Sigmund Freud
1856 – 1939 Austrian psychologist, neurologist
The founder of psychoanalysis, who mapped the unconscious mind.
- Religion
- A secular Jew and lifelong atheist who called religion an illusion born of human wishes.
- Affiliations
- Founder of the psychoanalytic movement. No secret society.
Freud argued that unconscious drives, especially sexual ones, shape our thoughts and behavior, and developed psychoanalysis to explore them. His ideas on dreams, repression, and the mind's structure transformed psychology, medicine, and culture. Much of his theory is now disputed, but his influence is vast.
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- 1909 G. Stanley Hall invites Freud to the United States mentioned
- 1928 Bernays publishes Propaganda mentioned
- 1928 Bernays applies Freudian psychology to selling mentioned