Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis [TGF]

Sigmund Freud born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychotherapy, within some areas of psychiatry, and across the humanities. As such it continues to generate extensive debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status and as to whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause.Nonetheless Freud's work has suffused contemporary thought and popular culture to the extent that in 1939 W. H. Auden wrote, in a poem dedicated to him: "to us he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives