FREUD - BACKGROUND

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B><FONT SIZE=6>FREUD</FONT><BR> THE PSYCHOLOGIST</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>Background</B></FONT><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>FAMILY MATTERS</B></FONT><BR> Born in Freiburg, Moravia, Sigmund was the first child of his father's second marriage. Some relate his "Oedipus complex" to this. After graduating in medicine from the university of Vienna, he began a promising research career. His marriage to Martha Bernays produced six children. He turned him from research to clinical practice to support them.<P> <CENTER><IMG SRC="2002a.jpg" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="212" ALT="FREUD FAMILY"></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>BEING JEWISH MATTERS</B></FONT><BR> Although he abandoned Judaism, as he did all religions, dismissing them as "collective neurosis", his Jewishness was always important to him. He remained suspicious of Gentiles and believed himself a victim of anti-Semitism even before he was forced by the Nazis to leave Austria in 1938. In 1971, a generous donation from his daughter, Anna, had the flat where Freud wrote most of his work (from "The Interpretation of Dreams" to "The Future of an Illusion") made into a museum. "Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays" was finished in his London exile. He continued writing despite the painful cancer of his last fifteen years. <BR clear=left><BR> <HR width=100%> <A HREF="http://www.creatorix.com.au"><IMG SRC="../creatorix.gif" WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="40" BORDER="0" ALT="Creatorix" align=right></A> </BODY>