Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was a physician who founded psychoanalysis, a theory of the mind and a method of psychological treatment. Working chiefly in Vienna, he argued that unconscious motives and childhood experiences shape human behaviour, profoundly influencing twentieth-century thought.

The day shown

Vienna · 1910

This Vienna routine is drawn from a Freud Museum summary based on Ernest Jones’s biography. Patients occupied much of the day, with walking, family meals and writing fitted around them. The year 1910 is representative; the source does not date the pattern precisely.