Sigmund Freud? Who is Sigmund Freud? Sigmund was an Australian neurologist, also known as one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis. He later received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna. Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and uncovered transference. His theory was the unconscious as an agency of conscious states in the mind. He postulated the existence of libido. He subsequently made use of psychoanalytic theory to develop a wide-ranging interpretation. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Morvaian town of Pribor. He was one of 8 children. His father was a merchant. His theory was that human beings have an unconscious, in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with those that disfigure them. Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856. He died on September 23, 1939. When he was young, the Sigmund family moved to Vienna. (Where he spent much of his life) He was the first to graduate in his class with Summa cum Laude. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna. Then he worked to become a doctor. Although he was good at what he did as a doctor, he was amazed by the emotional disorder known as hysteria. He met a woman who had a disorder. His symptoms were nervous cough, tactile anesthesia and paralysis. He also said he was experiencing several traumatic experiences. He abandoned his academic career, opened a medical practice and became more interested in psychological disorders. He first joined forces with the French neurologist Professor Jean-Martin Charcot. Then he became familiar with hypnosis. Freud distinguished himself by giving the world a new medical discipline, psychoanalysis. He has developed an innovative approach to the human mind by providing... middle of paper... a painful truth, which they feel is not important enough for them or embarrassing. Some say those people can't understand when it's really happening. Freud says they are in “denial”. Freud also states that our mental states are influenced by two competing forces, called cathexis and then anticatexis. The investment would be like mental energy in a person. For example, you are hungry and thinking about what you want to eat. If you can't actually search for food to quench your hunger, you might instead flip through a cookbook that might exploit the ego. Anticathexis implies that the ego blocks socially unacceptable needs. Freud says that babies gain knowledge and get a lot of pleasure from sucking. He calls it the oral stage of development. This phase is followed by the “anus” phase. (when the child defecates) Immediately after the anus-phallic phase”.”