Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 and died September 23,
1939. Simply put, he was a neurologist who became known as the
founding father of psychoanalysis. In creating psychoanalysis,
which is a clinical method for treating psychopathology through
dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, Freud developed
therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and
discovered transference, establishing its central role in the
analytic process. More importantly, through this method he
helped people regain normal lives. Freud’s redefinition of
sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate
the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory, the Oedipus
Complex. His analysis of his own and his patients’ dreams as
wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical
analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression
as well as for further elaboration of his theory of the
unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind.
Freud postulated the existence of libido,