#8 Overall Influence
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
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Why is this person notable and influential?Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
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Schools
What schools is this person affiliated with?Notable Works
What contributions to academia has this person made?- Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Dostoevsky and Parricide
- The Ego and the Id
- Mourning and Melancholia
- Das Unheimliche
- Why War?
- Sobre los recuerdos encubridores
- The Future of an Illusion
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
- Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood
- Cinq leçons sur la psychanalyse
- Moses and Monotheism
- On Narcissism
- Fragmento de análisis de un caso de histeria
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- On Suicide: With Particular Reference to Suicide among Young Students
- An Outline of Psychoanalysis
- Cinq psychanalyses
- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
- Entwurf einer Psychologie
- The Question of Lay Analysis
- The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
- Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva
- Dream Psychology
- Dalla storia di una nevrosi infantile
- Studies on Hysteria
- Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- Medusa's Head
- The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- On Aphasia
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Totem and Taboo
Influence Rankings by Discipline
How’s this person influential?#1 World Rank
Psychology
#2 World Rank
Medical