Google marks the 160th birth anniversary of the Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (the method of resolving mental illness through a dialogue between a doctor and patient) with a doodle on its home pages in a number of countries around the world. Freud was one of the most influential world-changing thinkers of the 20th century.
Freud was born born on May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Príbor, Czech Republic). His father Jakob, was a Jewish wool merchant.
His work on human sexual repression led to terms as "Freudian slip" and "Oedipus complex".
Freud's discoveries about the unconscious mind altered popular perceptions of self and society. He abandoned more traditional ways of treating mental disorders in favour of listening to his patients talk, allowing them to free associate ideas.
His observations led to a belief that neuroses resulted from repressed sexual trauma, which patients needed to release in order to recover.
In The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1899, Freud theorised that dreams represented the fulfilment of distorted infantile desires and wrote about the "Oedipus complex", the child's desire for the parent of the opposite sex.
Freud fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938 and spent his final days in London. He died on September 23, 1939, at age 83.
Instead of the dimpled leather couch that we would usually associate with Freud and other therapists, Google doodler Kevin Laughlin drew an iceberg for Sigmund Freud's 160th birth anniversary. "With a vast hidden base, the iceberg references the murky depths of the unconscious mind. More importantly, the design draws our eye to the horizon, reminding us how the genius of Freud's practice rests in the space between doctor and patient, reader and text, human and world," Google describes the doodle.
(With inputs from agencies)
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