Freud Facts

Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous thinkers in psychology history. Learn and share these interesting facts about Freud!

• Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Austria.

• Freud was fascinated with cocaine, and abused it for over 12 years of his life.

• Freud’s main belief was that young children, even infants, had unconscious sexual feelings.
  

  “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
  ― Sigmund Freud

• Freud strongly believed that women were the inferior of the two sexes and had classified homosexuality as a disorder that was rooted in the psyche.

• Freud is famous for being the inventor of psychoanalysis.

• Freud formulated the Oedipus complex.

• Sigmund Freud postulated the existence of libido.

• Freud was one of the first to really propose serious theories on the unconscious.

• Freud developed therapeutic techniques like free association.

• His main belief at the time was that dreams are a way of fulfilling things we wish we could do while conscious, but were unable.

• Freud is known to have treated the famous composer Gustav Mahler for impotency.

• He was multilingual and spoke German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French, Spanish and Italian.

• Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize in recognition for his contributions to psychology.

• Sigmund Freud had an obsession for the number 51 and for a long time he believed that he would die at that age.

• He died in 1939 after suffering from mouth and jaw cancer for 20 long years.

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