The German Way: Life in Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Born in Austria-Hungary just four years before the American Civil War, Sigmund Freud became the world-famous inventor of psychoanalysis and the vocabulary of neuroses. He lived to see his books burned by the Nazis before he fled Austria for London just prior to his death.

Freud Museum Vienna
Berggasse 19, the Sigmund Freud house and museum in Vienna, Austria. There’s also a Freud museum in London. PHOTO © Hyde Flippo
Freud’s immense influence on the western world colors our thinking even today. (Is there anyone who has not heard of Freud or things “Freudian”?) Even if his theories prove to be total bunk, as his detractors claim, Freud has certainly helped contribute to a better understanding of what makes humans tick. His sexually based theories about the id and the ego—largely formulated by the 1920s—and the technique of psychoanalysis in general continue to provoke intense debate. And just try to imagine world cinema and literature without Freud’s influence.

Freud’s chief collaborators, fellow Austrian Alfred Adler (1870-1937) and the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1885-1961), broke with the master to develop their own influential psychological theories and practices.

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