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Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, which is now part of Czechoslovakia. He was the oldest of eight children, and his father was a wool merchant. Sigmund inherited from his father the sense of humor, the skepticism before life incertitude, the habit of exemplifying by a Jewish story when he wanted to bring out some moral trait, his tolerance and free thought. From his mother he would have taken "the sentimentalism", and vague word in German, which would mean that Freud was capable of strong emotional feelings. Freud enjoyed the unrestrained love of his mother, Amalia, who called him "my golden Sigi". This unconditional love will make Freud notice: "When you were incontestably the favorite child of your mother, you keep during your lifetime this victor feeling, you keep feeling sure of success, which in reality seldom doesn't fulfill”. When Freud was 4 years old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He married for the first time when he was seventeen and had t...

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