Sigmund Freud Quotes
Psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud was psychoanalyst from Austria
“They told me I was treating people with fantasies. Twenty years later those fantasies became textbooks.”— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) sold only 600 copies in its first 8 years. The medical establishment dismissed Freud as unscientific. By 1920, psychoanalysis was taught worldwide.
The Story of Sigmund
London, September 23, 1939
In 1938, the Nazis annexed Austria. Freud was eighty-two, Jewish, and dying of jaw cancer. He fled to London with his daughter Anna. Four of his sisters stayed behind. All four died in concentration camps. In London, he continued to see patients and write. On September 23, 1939, he asked his doctor Max Schur to end his suffering. Schur administered morphine. Freud died at three in the morning. He had changed how humanity understands itself. He was buried in Golders Green Crematorium.
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