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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

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Vienna physician and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939). Documented harms: Über Coca, a paid private hour, Adler and Jung breaks, a secret committee, 1938 exile and flight-tax. Offsets: Studies on Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, Clark 1909, the 1922 Ambulatorium.

Clinical psychoanalysis as a paid Vienna methoddream and sexuality books as public theory1938 exile as forced displacement not a voluntary school

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The record is not a marble healer of Vienna and not a unique author of 1933 burnings. The heaviest documented costs are a cocaine paper, a fee-door, over-claimed cases, a recast of testimony, published patient files, school-splits and a secret committee, a femininity lecture, and 1938 bans, tax, and exile. The offsets are a small set of books, Clark 1909, a 1922 free clinic, and a defence of lay analysts. Confidence is high on the major books, Clark, and 4 June 1938; medium on Eckstein, disguise of cases, and unique tax sums.

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 7 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1882–1938).

Causal path

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  1. PersonSigmund Freud
  2. FactFreud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss
  3. DriverForced-Displacement Scale
  1. PersonSigmund Freud
  2. FactReich flight-tax and asset conditions are imposed on Freud's 1938 departure
  3. DriverFiscal-Policy Sustainability
  1. PersonSigmund Freud
  2. FactNazi professional bans on Jewish physicians close Freud's Vienna medical public after March 1938
  3. DriverSanctions Pressure

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 4 June 1938 · Forced-Displacement Scale

    Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss

  2. 1 May 1938 · Fiscal-Policy Sustainability

    Reich flight-tax and asset conditions are imposed on Freud's 1938 departure

  3. 1 March 1938 · Sanctions Pressure

    Nazi professional bans on Jewish physicians close Freud's Vienna medical public after March 1938

  4. 1 January 1933 · Protection of Minority Rights

    New Introductory Lectures (1933) include the femininity lecture as a public gender-theory file

  5. 1 January 1930 · Social Cohesion

    Civilization and its Discontents is published in 1930 as a public book on culture and unease

  6. 1 January 1926 · Labour-Market Tightness

    The Question of Lay Analysis is published in 1926 as a defence of non-medical analysts

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

32 of 32 linked facts verified, drawing on 19 distinct sources (1882–1938).

Sources include Freud Museum London, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, International Psychoanalytical Association, Project Gutenberg, British Psychoanalytical Society.

Sources (showing 8 of 19)

  1. 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Sigmund FreudInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. 2.Britannica — Sigmund Freud, Charcot and ParisEncyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 3.Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna — Berggasse 19 neighbourhoodSigmund Freud Museum Vienna
  4. 4.Freud Museum London — Freud biography and early clinical booksFreud Museum London
  5. 5.International Psychoanalytical Association — about the IPAInternational Psychoanalytical Association
  6. 6.PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1933) New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Standard Edition 22Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)
  7. 7.PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1920) Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Standard Edition 18Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)
  8. 8.PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1918) From the History of an Infantile Neurosis, Standard Edition 17Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 19

Expert analysis

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The offices he actually held

Freud is a Vienna Privatdozent then professor extraordinarius, a private physician, and the named founder of a movement that printed books and opened a 1922 free clinic. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud (opens in a new tab), the Stanford psychoanalysis entry at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychoanalysis/ (opens in a new tab), IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/freud/ (opens in a new tab), the Freud Museum London at https://www.freud.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab), and the Vienna museum at https://www.freud-museum.at/en/ (opens in a new tab) are independent public files. Clark University's 1909 collection at https://commons.clarku.edu/conference1909/ (opens in a new tab) dates the American lectures. Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355 (opens in a new tab) is a later English carrier, not 1899 autograph.

The first fact about his power is a paid hour at Berggasse. The second is a stack of German books that still teach a method. The third is a 1938 exit he did not vote.

What went wrong

Über Coca recommended cocaine in 1884. The Anna O. file, later printed with Breuer, is not treated here as a complete cure. Eckstein's 1895 nasal operation sits in a circle he shared by referral and defence. In 1897 he recast many seduction reports as fantasy. Ordinary access was a fee until the Ambulatorium. Rat Man and Wolf Man papers are data costs. Adler left in 1911; a secret committee formed in 1912; Jung broke in 1913; Rank in 1924. After March 1938 professional bans closed a Jewish physician's Vienna public; a flight-tax was extracted; on 4 June 1938 he left.

What improved

Charcot's clinic; Studies on Hysteria; The Interpretation of Dreams; Everyday Life; Wednesday meetings; Three Essays as one clinical book; Clark 1909; the IPA; Totem and Taboo; Introductory Lectures; Budapest war-neurosis discussion; the Verlag; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; the Ambulatorium; Lay Analysis; Civilization and its Discontents.

Related people: Breuer, Charcot, Adler, Jung, Rank, Ferenczi, Nietzsche as a named reading, Goethe as a 1930 prize heading, Dalí as a 1938 visitor, Einstein as a 1932 correspondent.

Jones's later biography is not 1912. A 1933 burning is not a Freud signature. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named.

Questions

Is Sigmund Freud under sanctions?

Yes. 1 March 1938: Nazi professional bans on Jewish physicians close Freud's Vienna medical public after March 1938 (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Does Sigmund Freud face an ICC warrant or criminal charges?

1 September 1897: Freud abandons the seduction theory in 1897 correspondence, recasting many patient reports as fantasy.

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