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Line 1: − Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was the atheistic father of [[psychoanalysis]]. He was a professor in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 he fled the Nazis by traveling to England, where he was welcomed and made popular. − Freud proposed that the human psyche consists of three parts -- Ego, super-ego, and id -- and that defense mechanisms are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id. Critics of Freud point out that he fabricated some of his data in order to make some of his claims. − Late in life, Freud asked his doctor to kill him, which his doctor did.+ + + + + + + + + +
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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was the father of [[psychoanalysis]].
In 1938 he fled the Nazis by traveling to England, where he died later.
He co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; 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 presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires.
Freud proposed that the human psyche consists of three parts -- Ego, super-ego, and id -- and that defense mechanisms are an attempt by the mind to resolve conflicts between the super-ego and the id.
Although there have been critics who claimed that Freud has fabricated some of his data, there has never been any proof to that. Furthermore, Freuds results were confirmed by several psychologists later.
Sigmund Freud died of maxillary cancer at the age of 82.
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