Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies. Few figures have had as much ...