FREUD AND INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

Freud and interpretation of dreams

Freud and interpretation of dreams

Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis, was born in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, in 1856. His family moved to Vienna in 1860, where Freud remained until he was forced to flee to Britain following the 1938 Anschluss. Freud published his first work of psychoanalysis, studies on hysteria (with Josef Breuer) in 1895, after a career in brain research and medical practice (Cheng, 2001).

In his 1917 "A difficulty in the path of psychoanalysis, Freud described psychoanalysis as the third major blow to human narcissism. The first was Nicholas Copernicus' refutation ...