Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between pat
Freud, c. 1921
Freud's birthplace, a rented room in a locksmith's house, Freiberg, Austrian Empire (Příbor, Czech Republic)
Freud (aged 16) and his mother, Amalia, in 1872
Freud's home at Berggasse 19, Vienna
Oedipus complex
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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual desire for his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual devel
Sigmund Freud
…of transference phenomena that arise in the clinical setting. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include infantile stages led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as a central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom…
Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau (1864)
Otto Rank on the far left, behind Sigmund Freud, and other psychoanalysts (1922)