Freud, Sigmund

1. A physician in Vienna , Austria , in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who founded psychoanalysis and developed the theory of the Oedipus complex . He believed that psychological problems could be traced to repressed childhood experiences, particularly to repressed sexual desires. He also argued that dreams provide clues to the nature of psychological problems. His theories introduced concepts such as those of the id and superego into the language of psychiatry .

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He leads Bella Freud, Sigmund's great-granddaughter, straight to a painting by her father Lucian, for which she has been searching, and pulls out Freud's overcoat from a cupboard the others had forgotten about.

From The Guardian

Spencer's anxiety, especially the sexual anxiety his paintings record, was also intensely "modern": the almost desperate frankness that made his self-portrait with the naked body of his disagreeable future wife Patricia Preece unexhibitable in its day, and still shocking in ours, belongs to a whole subhistory of the crisis of the ideal nude, beginning with Degas's pastels and continued by the unconsoling candor of Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson.

From Time Magazine Archive

The authors are Joseph Goldstein, professor of law, science and social policy at Yale; Anna Freud, Sigmund's analyst daughter and an authority on children; and Albert Solnit, director of Yale's Child Study Center.

From Time Magazine Archive

The current show also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson.

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Sigmund Freud's spirit hovered over their home; she was the psychoanalyst's grandniece, and was named after Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter.

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