
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, the founder of psychoanalysis and regarded as one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century. On the 170th anniversary of Freud’s birth, Edward Sierra will offer an engaging and informative presentation that covers the arc of Freud’s life and career to include his education, early work as a neurologist, family life, addiction to cocaine, theories, trip to America, and escape to England. Freud wrote: “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.”