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Julius, an event that was to have a significant impact on Freud’s psychic development. Sigmund was filled with hostility toward his younger brother and harbored an unconscious wish for his death. When Julius died at 6 months of age, Sigmund was left with feeling of guilt at having caused his brother’s death. When Freud reached middle age, he began to understand that his wish did not actually cause his brother’s death and that children often have a death wish for a younger sibling. This discovery purged Freud of the guilt he had carried into adulthood and, by his own analysis, contributed to his later psychic development ( Freud, 1900/1953). Freud was drawn into medicine, not because he loved medical practice, but because he was intensely curious about human nature ( Ellenberger, 1970) He entered the University of Vienna Medical School with no intention of practice medicine. Instead, he preferred teaching and doing research in physiological, which he continued even after he graduated from he University’s Physiological Institute. Freud might have continued this work indefinitely had it not been for two factors. First, he believed ( Probably with some justification) that as a Jew. His opportunities for academic advancement would be limited. Second, his father, who helped finance his medical school expense, became less able to provide monetary aid. Reluctantly, Freud turned from his laboratory to the practice of medicine. He worked for 3 years in the General Hospital of Vienna, becoming familiar with the practice of various branches of medicine, including psychiatry and nervous diseases ( Freud, 1925/1959). In 1885, he received a traveling grant from the University of Vienna and decided to