Sigmund Freud’s Death – Cause and Date

Sigmund Freud Death Cause and Date

Born (Birthday) May 6, 1856

Death Date September 23, 1939

Age of Death 83 years

Cause of Death Drug Overdose

Profession Psychiatrist

The psychiatrist Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Father of Modern Psychiatry who was the first to come up with psychiatric concepts such as the unconscious, the Ego, and the Oedipal Complex. He was known for analyzing his patient’s dreams and he theorized that dreams themselves were forms of wish-fulfillment.

He married Martha Bernays in 1886 and they had six children together.

Quotes

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud Death Cause and Date