INTRODUCTION

Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856, in the Catholic town of Freiburg in Moravia, the eldest of eight children born to the wool merchant Jacob Freud and his second wife Amalia, both of whom were of Galician Jewish ancestry. In 1859 the family moved to Leipzig and then in 1860 to Vienna, where Freud was to remain until June 1938, when, following Hitler’s invasion of Austria, he fled to England. He died in London on 23 September 1939.