Sigmund Freud Biography

Birth of Sigmund Freud

Publishes his first paper about "the testicles of eels" in the Mitteilungen der ”sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, conceding that he could not solve the matter

Publishes his first paper about "the testicles of eels" in the Mitteilungen der ”sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, conceding that he could not solve the matter

Publishes his first paper about "the testicles of eels" in the Mitteilungen der ”sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, conceding that he could not solve the matter

Receives his MD degree at the age of 25

Earns a medical degree

Freud goes to Paris on a traveling fellowship to study with Europes most renowned neurologist, Jean Martin Charcot

Appointed Lecturer in neuropathology at the University of Vienna

Freud marries Martha Bernays

Publishes clinical studies linking symptoms with repressed experiences.

Develops therapeutic methods based on recalling and discussing traumatic memories.

First uses the term psychoanalysis

Freud develops his first topology of the psyche in The Interpretation of Dreams

Freud develops his first topology of the psyche in The Interpretation of Dreams in which he proposed that the unconscious exists and described a method for gaining access to it

Proposes that the unconscious mind exists and describes a method for gaining access into it

Publication of "The Interpretation of Dreams"

Argues that everyday mistakes can reveal unconscious mental processes.

Publishes an analysis of errors, forgetting and accidental speech.

Publication of "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie)

Publication of "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie)

Founds the International Psychoanalytic Association

Freud proposes that the psyche could be divided into three parts: ego, super-ego, and id, Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud proposes that the psyche could be divided into three parts: ego, super-ego, and id, Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud proposes that the psyche could be divided into three parts: ego, super-ego, and id, fully elaborated upon it in The Ego and the Id

Freud proposes that the psyche could be divided into three parts: ego, super-ego, and id, fully elaborated upon it in The Ego and the Id

Publication of "The Future of an Illusion" (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)

Publication of "The Future of an Illusion" (Die Zukunft einer Illusion)

Publication of "Civilization and Its Discontents" (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur)

Publication of "Civilization and Its Discontents" (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur)

Freud receives the Goethe Prize in appreciation of his contribution to psychology and to German literary culture

Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss followed by violent outbursts of anti-Semitism in Vienna, and Freud and his family receive visits from the Gestapo

Emigrates from Vienna to London aged 81 to "die in freedom"

Freud decides to go into exile "to die in freedom", he and his family leave Vienna in & move to Hampstead, London

Publication of "Moses and Monotheism" (Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion)

Publication of "Moses and Monotheism" (Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion)

Death of Sigmund Freud. A heavy cigar smoker, Freud endured more than 30 operations during his life due to oral cancer, he prevailes on his doctor and friend Max Schur to assist him in suicide

A heavy cigar smoker, Freud endured more than 30 operations during his life due to oral cancer, he prevailes on his doctor and friend Max Schur to assist him in suicide

A heavy cigar smoker, Freud endured more than 30 operations during his life due to oral cancer, he prevailes on his doctor and friend Max Schur to assist him in suicide

A heavy cigar smoker, Freud endured more than 30 operations during his life due to oral cancer, he prevailes on his doctor and friend Max Schur to assist him in suicide

Freuds body is cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in England during a service attended by Austrian refugees, including the author Stefan Zweig