Freud begins his medical studies at the University of Vienna.
Conducts medical research in Trieste (Triest, then part of Austria, now in Italy). Returns to Vienna to work in physiology with Ernst Wilhelm Brücke.
Changed his first name from Sigismund to Sigmund
Serves his compulsory one year of miltary duty.
Freud received his doctorate degree in medicine.
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Research and experimentation with cocaine. He publishes the monograph "Über Coca" ("On Coca"), but his attempt to cure a morphine-addicted friend with doses of cocaine turns out badly.
Freud sets up his private medical practice in Vienna.
Marries Martha Bernays.
First use of hypnosis. Meets Wilhelm Fliess, with whom Freud later develops his first ideas on psychoanalysis and the “Oedipus complex.”
Began formulating his seduction theory.
First use of the term “psychoanalysis”.
Self-analysis begins, altering some of the theories on neuroses that Freud had developed with Josef Breuer (1895).
Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) in November (dated 1900).
Travels to the U.S. with C.G. Jung in September to give lectures.
Totem and Taboo was published.
Published Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which introduced his concept of the death instinct.
Published The Ego and the Id and was diagnosed with jaw cancer.
Civilization and its Discontents was published.
Freud receives the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt.
Corresponded with Albert Einstein.
In Berlin, Freud’s books are publicly burned by the Nazis.
