Sigmund Freud was known as the father of modern psychology. He became interested in women's psychoanalysis and the fact that their sexual drive could cause them to become as what was known then as hysterical. Hysteria is behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion such as fear or panic. In the nineteenth century, women had fewer rights than men, and many thought their place was in the home. Sigmund Freud's views of women did not follow the society's views of women in the nineteenth century.

Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856. His father was a wool merchant. His mother was a lively woman. She was 21 years old when she gave birth to her first son Sigmund. Sigmund had two older half-brothers and six younger siblings. When he was four or his family moved to Vienna, where he lived most of his childhood. He was very smart as a child, and...