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[[Image:freud-thumb.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Freud in his laboratory]]
 
{{stub}}'''Sigmund Freud''' (1856–1939) was the father of [[psychoanalysis]].   
 
{{stub}}'''Sigmund Freud''' (1856–1939) was the father of [[psychoanalysis]].   
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In 1938 he fled the Nazis by travelling to England, where he died later.
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In 1938 he fled the [[Nazi]]s by travelling to [[England]], where he died later.
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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 symbolic interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires.
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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 symbolic interpretation 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.  
 
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.  
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