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One or two small edits regarding Freud's living in Vienna and removed a false assertion that he founded 'psychology'.
[[Image:freud-thumb.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Freud in his laboratory]]
[[Image:freud-thumb.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Freud in his laboratory]]
'''Sigmund Freud''' (1856–1939) was the father of [[psychoanalysis]].
'''Sigmund Freud''' (1856–1939) was the founder of [[psychoanalysis]].
In 1938 he left fled Vienna and persecution by the [[Nazi]]s to North [[London]],[[England]], where he lived until his death in 1939.
Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especially involving the mechanism of [[repression]]; his symbolic interpretation of dreams; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic technique, especially his understanding of [[transference]] in the therapeutic relationship and the symbolic interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into [[unconscious desire]]s.
Freud proposed that the human [[psyche]] consists of three parts -- [[Ego]], [[super-ego]], and [[id]] -- and that [[defense mechanism]]s are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id.
Freud proposed that the human [[psyche]] consists of three parts -- [[Ego]], [[super-ego]], and [[id]] -- and that [[defense mechanism]]s are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id.