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.

In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged ...