American Decades
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Lecture
By: Sigmund Freud
Date: 1920
Source: Freud, Sigmund. A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis: A Course of Twenty-Eight Lectures Delivered at the University of Vienna. 1920. Reprint. New York: Liveright, 1935, 17–24.
About the Author: Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia). He was the son of a wealthy Jewish wool merchant and was raised in Vienna. Freud attended the local elementary school and attended high school from 1866 to 1873. He studied Greek and Latin, mathematics, history, and the natural sciences. A superior student, he entered the University of Vienna and received his doctor of medicine degree. Freud was a physically small man. He loved to read, travel, and was a collector of archeological oddities. He valued the companionship of friends and enjoyed playing cards. Freud married Martha Bernays in 1887, and they...
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