Sigmund Freud

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Freudian theory of child psychosexual development and its role in personality

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, the most influential theory of the mind in the 20th century. The Interpretation of Dreams proposed that unconscious wishes, revealed in dreams and slips of the tongue, are the key to understanding the mind. His work transformed psychiatry, literature, and culture, though much of it has been scientifically contested.

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