Life,Theories and works.  He was born in Czech Republic in 1856;  He spent most of his life in Wien;  He was influenced by the work of his friend, Josef Breuer;  He married Martha Bernays; they had six children;  He died in on September 23, 1939 at age 83 by suicuide. Child The ego sexuality  ID, EGO and SUPEREGO: these are the three essential parts of the human personality.

 PSYCHIC ENERGY: libido or sexual urges are a physic energy that drives all of human actions.  : all children are sexually attracted to the parents.  DREAM ANALYSIS: people dream for a reason, to resolve problems of mind.

believed that by analyzing our dreams and memories, we can understand them. The dreams are reflection of our wishes.  ‘THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS’  ‘THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE’ (Freudian sleep)  ‘THREE ESSAYS OF THE THEORY OF SEXUALITY’ (sex drives human instincts)  A “river o a “stream” of what the person thinks without any logical connection or chronological order.  Continuous flow of thoughts and sensations that characterizes the human mind.  A lot of thoughts about everything.  Freud, Svevo and Joyce used this technique in their works to represent the human mind’s chaos.  Nobody thinks in complete, well organised sentences.  Sudden passages from one topic to another, from third person first person.  Uncompleted sentences.  Creation of a style appropriate to convey the complexities and the fragmentations of thought.  Passing from one idea to another for free-association.  The narration in retrospect, disappearance of the omniscent narrator.  Concept of “the time of the mind”.

 Freud studies led to a new concept of the mind and to the discovery of the power of inconscious, “the true, psychic reality”  Stream of consciousness  ID, ego and superego  Dreams importance  Thoughts about sex and human instinct