By the late 1890s Freud had built on the insights of several coworkers to found the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
After an education in which he studied the Greek and Latin classics as well as French and German literature, Freud turned to medicine and eventually to the infant science of psychology. Born into a Jewish family in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), Freud moved with his family to Vienna, Austria, where he lived from early boyhood until shortly before his death.
Against the prevailing scientific opinion of the day, this longer work argues that dreams have meaning and that every dream represents a wish of the dreamer.Įvents in History at the Time of the Studyįrom Arthur Schnitzler’s “Lieutenant Gustl”Ī pioneer in exploring the hidden workings of the human mind, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the founder of psychoanalysis, has been called the most influential thinker of the twentieth century. In On Dreams, Freud summarizes his earlier groundbreaking The Interpretation of Dreams ( Die Traumdeutung ). A psychological study of the function, nature, and meaning of dreams published in German (as Über den Traum) in 1901, in English in 1914.
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