1856 | Sigismund Schlomo Freud is born on 6 May in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pbor in the Czech Republic). |
1860 | The Freuds move to Vienna. |
1873 | Sigmund Freud finishes his schooling at the Gymnasium and enters Vienna University. |
1881 | Sigmund Freud qualifies as doctor of medicine. |
18821883 | Freud is employed as a doctor in Theodor Meynerts psychiatric clinic. |
18841885 | Studies of the medicinal effects of coca. |
18851886 | Five-month study grant at the Paris Salptrire Hospital under Jean-Martin Charcot, who awakens Freuds interest in the therapeutic use of hypnosis. |
1886 | Marriage to Martha Bernays. Between 1887 and 1895 the familys six children are born (Mathilde, Martin, Oliver, Ernst, Sophie and Anna). Freud goes into private medical practice. |
1891 | Move to Berggasse 19. |
1895 | Together with Joseph Breuer, Freud publishes the Studies on Hysteria. During the same year he also succeeds for the first time in interpreting one of his own dreams. |
1896 | Freuds first use of the term psychoanalysis. |
1897 | Freud begins his self-analysis. |
1899 | The first copies of The Interpretation of Dreams are delivered, post-dated 1900. |
1901 | Freud begins the analysis of the eighteen-year-old Dora. |
1902 | Sigmund Freud is appointed Professor at the University of Vienna. Founding of the Wednesday Psychological Society. |
1905 | Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora) are published. |
1906 | C. G. Jung begins his correspondence with Freud. |
1907 | Publication of Delusion and Dreams in W. Jensens Gradiva and Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming. |
1908 | The First Congress of Freudian Psychology takes place in Salzburg. Publication of Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness. |
1910 | Founding of the International Psychoanalytic Association. |
1911 | Alfred Adler resigns from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. |
1912 | Founding of the psychoanalytic journal Imago. |
1913 | Break with C. G. Jung. Publication of Totem and Taboo. |
1914 | Publication of the polemical History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement and of The Moses of Michelangelo. |
1915 | Freud writes Timely Reflections on War and Death around six months after the outbreak of the First World War. |
1916 | The first part of the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis is published. |
1918 | Freud begins the analysis of his daughter Anna. |
1919 | Founding of the International Psychoanalytic Press in Vienna. |
1920 | Freuds daughter Sophie dies in the Hamburg influenza epidemic. Founding of the English language International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. Publication of Beyond the Pleasure Principle. |
1921 | Publication of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. |
1923 | The first signs of Freuds oral cancer are detected. Publication of The Ego and the Id. |
1925 | Publication of An Autobiographical Study. |
1926 | Quackery charges levelled at a young analyst inspire Freud to write The Question of Lay Analysis. |
1927 | Freud publishes The Future of an Illusion, a psychoanalytic assault on religion. |
1930 | Publication of Civilization and Its Discontents. |
1933 | Freud corresponds with Einstein on the question Why War?. Publication of the New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. |
1935 | Freud is elected Honorary Member of the British Royal Society of Medicine. |
1938 | The Freud apartment is searched by the Gestapo; Anna Freud is detained for a day and interrogated. All psychoanalytic institutions are forced to close. Sigmund Freud emigrates with his family to London. |
1939 | Sigmund Freud dies on 23 September in London. Publication of Moses and Monotheism. |
Works
S IGMUND F REUD , The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. and trans. by James Strachey, Hogarth Press, London, 1961. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Studies on Hysteria, with Josef Breuer (1895), vol. II
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), vols. IV/V
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905), vol. VIII
Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (1908), vol. IX
Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming (1908), vol. IX
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (1910), vol. XI
On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement (1914), vol. XIV
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (191517), vols. XV/XVI
The Ego and the Id (1923), vol. XIX
An Autobiographical Study (1925), vol. XX
The Resistances to Psycho-Analysis (1925), vol. XIX
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926), vol. XX
The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), vol. XX
Humour (1927), vol. XXI
Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), vol. XXI
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (193336), vol. XXII
Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937), vol. XXIII
Constructions in Analysis (1937), vol. XXIII
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940), vol. XXIII
, The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905), trans. Joyce Crick, Penguin Books, London, 2002.
, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), in Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings, trans. John Reddick, Penguin Books, London, 2003.
, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), trans. David McLintock, Penguin Books, London, 2004.
, Timely Reflections on War and Death (1915), in Sigmund Freud, On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia, trans. Shaun Whiteside, Penguin Books, London, 2005.
, Why War? (1933), in Sigmund Freud, On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia, trans. Shaun Whiteside, Penguin Books, London, 2005.
Letters
E RNST L . F REUD (ed.), The Letters of Sigmund Freud, trans. Tania and James Stern, Basic Books, New York, 1961.
E RNST AND L UCIE F REUD (eds.), Sigmund Freud, Briefe 18731939, second expanded edition, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1968.
E RNST L . F REUD (ed.), The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Arnold Zweig, trans. Prof. and Mrs. W. D. Robson-Scott, Hogarth Press, London, 1970.
J EFFREY M OUSSAIEFF M ASSON (ed. and trans.), The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985.
W ALTER B OEHLICH (ed.), The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Siberstein, trans. Arnold J. Pemerans, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990.
W ILLIAM M C G UIRE (ed.), The Freud/Jung Letters, trans. Ralph Manheim and R. C. F. Hull, Penguin Books, London, 1991.
E VA B RABANT , E RNST F ALZEDER , P ARTRIZIA G IAMPIERI- D EUTSCH (eds.),