What are the most interesting ideas of Freud?

One of the most interesting things about Freud is how he attempted to build a science out of art. There was no empirical science of psychology prior to Freud, so he was forced to use whatever was available to him as a way to create scientific theories. What was available to him? read more

It is interesting that Freud"secularized" aspects of the human psyche, which had previously been thought of in a religious paradigm. Freud's idea was to attribute psychological motivation to drives, not deities, etc. read more

One of most interesting of Sigmund Freud facts is that he developed a theory in which he said that a little boy is sexually attracted towards his mother. read more

And Sigmund Freud was a serious polyglot, with a strong knowledge of German, Italian, Greek, English, Spanish, Hebrew and Latin. For those of who aren’t counting, that is a grand total of seven languages, which makes us look bad as most people are lucky to be proficient in their own language. read more