Freud, Sigmund

Sander L Gilman, Emory University, Druid Hill, Georgia, USA

Published online: December 2010

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002522.pub2

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) an Austrian physician and founder of psychoanalysis.

Keywords: psychoanalysis; unconscious; talking cure; charcot; breuer

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Further Reading
	book Freud S (1955–1974) "Civilization and its discontents". In: Strachey J, Freud A, Strachey A and Tyson A (eds and trans) Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 21, pp. 59–145. London: Hogarth.
	book Freud S (1955–1974) "On the history of the psychoanalytic movement". In: Strachey J, Freud A, Strachey A and Tyson A (eds and trans) Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 14, pp. 3–66. London: Hogarth.
	book Gilman SL (1993) Freud, Race and Gender. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
	book Gilman SL (1993) The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siécle. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
	book Makari G (2008) Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. New York: Harper/HarperCollins Publishers.
	book Paul R (1996) Moses and Civilization: The Meaning behind Freud's Myth. New Haven: Yale University Press.