Biography of Sigmund Freud

Sigismund (Sigmund) Freud was born either on March 6 or May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. ( scholars disagree on his birth date-the first date was but 8 months after the marriage of his parents) Freud was the firstborn child of Jacob and Amalie Nathanson Freud, although his fa-the had two grown sons, Emanuel and Philipp, from a previous marriage. Jacob and Amalie Freud had seven other children within 10 years, but Sigmund remained the favorite of his young, indulgent mother, which may have partially contributed the lifelong self-confidence ( E . Jones,1953). A scholarly, serious-minded youth, Freud did not have a close friendship with any of his younger siblings. He did, however, enjoy a warm, indulgent relationship with his mother, leading his in later years to observe that the mother/son relationship was the most perfect, the most free from ambivalence of all human relationship ( Freud, 1933/1964). When Sigmund was three, the two Freud families left Freiberg. Emanuel’s family and Philipp moved to England, and the Jacob Freud family moved first to Leipzig and then to Vienna. The Austrian capital remained Sigmund Freud’s home for nearly 80 years, until 1938 when the Nazi invasion forced him to emigrate to London, where he dies on September, 23, 1939. When Freud was about a year and a half old, his mother gave birth to a second son,