Freud's Origins Sigmund Freud was born into an unprosperous Jewish family in 1856. His place of birth was above a blacksmith's forge in Freiberg, N. Moravia, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was talented, ambitious and wanted to become famous.

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Freud's childhood hero was Hannibal, the (Semitic) Carthaginian general who fought the Romans.

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