Sigmund Freud 1856-1939: Difference between revisions

Following four years of analyzing his and others' dreams, Freud published his first major work, ''The Interpretation of Dreams'', in 1900. This book was based off of both a self-analysis of his own dream and his interpretations of what they may mean, as well as the 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.<ref>"The interpretation of dreams" by Sigmund Freud. Internet Archive. March 2001. <https://archive.org/details/interpretationof1913freu accessed April 25 2014.</ref>