Sigmund Freud 1856-1939: Difference between revisions

Following four years of analyzing his and others' dreams, Freud published his first major work,[https://archive.org/details/interpretationof1913freu,The Interpretation of Dreams], in 1900. This work gave rise to his idea that children feel sexual attraction toward their opposite-sex parents, and rivalry toward their same-sex parents, a theory now commonly known as the Oedipus Complex. This idea then laid the foundation for two of Freud's best-known claims — that the sex drive is the main catalyst of all human behavior, and that beliefs in paternalistic religious figures are merely projections of human fears and desires.https://archive.org/details/interpretationof1913freu

Though Freud committed suicide in 1939 by a lethal dose of morphine, his influence continued to spread as the field of psychology evolved. By the time of his death, there were dozens of psychoanalytic societies throughout the world, modeled after one formed in Vienna by early supporters such as Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, and Otto Rank.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/twolives/freudbio.html<ref/>