Sigmund Freud —
by Robert Toth

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The father of psychoanalysis, few figures have had so decisive and fundamental an influence on the course of modern cultural history as Sigmund Freud. Yet few figures also have inspired such sustained controversy and intense debate. Freud's legacy continues to be hotly contested. Our notions of identity, memory, childhood and sexuality have been shaped in relation to-and often in opposition to-Freud's work. Freud's life and his key ideas have had a great effect upon the twentieth century.