# Sigmund Freud

- Id: `freud`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/freud/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `574f0e2b577969b788a8a9131d2dc07f94fbf4984dc1dae5c1084d68fbbf383a`

## Summary

An Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, Freud placed dreams, conflict, and the unconscious at the centre of psychic life.

## Overview

Freud died on 23 September 1939.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1856–1939",
    "era": "Long nineteenth century",
    "distance": "87–170 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 83
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "psychology",
    "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
    "detail": "Psychoanalysis",
    "labels": [
        "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "Psychoanalysis"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1939,
    "display": "1939 CE",
    "reason": "Freud died on 23 September 1939."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 1287,
    "languages": [
        "de",
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Příbor / Freiberg",
        "period": "1856-1859",
        "description": "Birthplace.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-sigmund-freud/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Vienna",
        "period": "1860-1938",
        "description": "Education, medical work and creation of psychoanalysis.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-sigmund-freud/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1885-1886",
        "description": "Study with Jean-Martin Charcot.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-sigmund-freud/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rome",
        "period": "multiple journeys",
        "description": "Repeated, deeply significant visits.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-sigmund-freud/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/"
    },
    {
        "name": "London",
        "period": "1938-1939",
        "description": "Exile from Nazi Vienna and final home.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-sigmund-freud/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/"
    }
]
```