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Freud Sigmund
Sigmund Freud. born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist and Psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Freud is best known for his theories of the Unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression.
He is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life which is directed toward a wide variety of objects; as well as his therapeutic techniques, including his theory of Transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into Unconscious desires.
Freud is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential — popularizing such notions as the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism.
In his later work, Freud proposed that the psyche could be divided into three parts: Ego, super-ego, and id. Freud discussed this structural model of the mind in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated it in The Ego and the Id (1923), where he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (conscious, unconscious, preconscious).
