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Sigismund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia to parents Jacob and Amalia. At the age of 41, Jakob already had two children from a previous marriage, but Sigismund was the 21-year-old Amalia's first born.
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Freud began attending the Gymnasium at the age of 9
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Freud graduated summa cum laude from secondary school and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna
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Freud received his doctorate degree in medicine.
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Worked with Charcot at the Salpetriere Hospital on hysteria and hypnosis
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Began his own private practice and married Martha Bernays his sister in law who had previously lived with him because of a break up with her fiance.
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Began formulating his seduction theory. Possible links to a distraught childhood.
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Published Studies on Hysteria with Breuer
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Published The Interpretation of Dreams. One of Freuds most famous works of his time. Blew everyones minds because in the past people believed dreams to be spiritual and mysterious.
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life was published by Freud which really grabbed everyones attention. Now everyday people could interpret the workings of the mind.
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Published Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which introduced his concept of the death instinct which was a drive towards death that is present in every human mind. The opposite of Eros or the drive for life.
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Published The Ego and the Id and was diagnosed with jaw cancer which assisted in his eventual death
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Freud died on September 23 of cancer in London