Neurologist, Founder of Psychoanalysis · Taurus · born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia

Sigmund Freud proposed that most of mental life happens outside awareness, and built a method for reaching it through talk. Much of the specific theory has not survived scrutiny, but the underlying premise, that unconscious processes shape behaviour and that speech can reach them, is now so ordinary it is almost invisible.

Their Taurus side

Fixed-sign obstinacy: he held his positions for decades against sustained professional hostility.

Notable works

• The Interpretation of Dreams
• Civilization and Its Discontents
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle
• Studies on Hysteria

Achievements

• Founded psychoanalysis
• The Interpretation of Dreams, published 1899
• Goethe Prize for literature
• Established the talking cure as a clinical method

In their words

• “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
• “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

Birth chart facts

• Sun sign: Taurus
• Chinese zodiac: Fire Dragon
• Life path number: 4 — The Builder
• Born on a Tuesday

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