Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst widely hailed as the founding father of that field. He is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an "analysand", and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as for his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy, and a prolific essayist, drawing on psychoanalysis to contribute to the history, interpretation and critique of culture.

Sigmund Freud in The War That Came Early
Samuel Goldman identified Sigmund Freud as one of the Jewish intellectuals whom the Nazis believed threatened Germany through the introduction of foreign ideas. In the 1930s, Freud had been forced to flee his homeland to escape Nazi persecution. He spent his last years in Britain.

In fact, Freud had always been well-travelled. He once visited America, where he gave a lecture on cognitive dissonance. Chaim Weinberg had attended the lecture.

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