35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

1. His Legacy Is Extensive

Freud got a lot of things wrong. In fact, he got just about everything wrong. But the thing about Freud is that even though he got a lot of things wrong, he helped develop the modern field of psychology by showing the critical ways that human behavior is connected to personality and childhood experiences, as well as other unconscious or subconscious mechanisms. For these contributions, psychology will always owe him a debt.

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