Sigmund Freud is well known as a father of psychoanalysis. In the psychosexual theory the concept of the libido plays central role. Libido is usually explained a sexual drive of a person towards the person. Freud worked out psychosexual stages of personality development. Every stage is characterized by the cathexis of specific human organ or an erogenous zone. As the child is developing into... read more

Anna O. was a pseudonym of Josef Breuer’s patient and her case was published in the book Studies of Hysteria, the result of collaboration with Sigmund Freud. This patient’s real name was Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-Jewish feminist. Her problems were caused by her father’s illness. Her symptoms were in “nervous cough”, squinting, partial paralysis, vis... read more