Sigmund Freud (6th May 1856 - 23rd September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic method of psychiatry.
He is best known and can be considered an hero for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression. He also created the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an analysand and psychoanalyst.
However,he is considered a villain by many people because of his psychosexual development theories which were based on the famous Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles. Freud named his new theory the "Oedipus Complex" in which he argued that children passed through a stage in which they fixated on the mother as a sexual object but that the child eventually overcame and repressed this desire because it is taboo nature. Many anti Semitic-people dislike him.
Although there are reasons to hate him there are also reasons to love him. Freud was an scientist of human behaviour and his theories are still used by almost every psychotherapist. In my opinion he created an important theory that helped many people in the past and nowadays his ideas are even more respected.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
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