Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father was a small time merchant, and his father's second wife was Freud's mother. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years ...

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

Freud turns to humanity's archaic past to explain the longing for an "exalted father." Narrator: Freud called religion an illusion. For over 30 years, he developed this idea in his enormous body ...

Despite his upbringing, sudden poverty and early scientific encounters lead Sigmund away from religion. Narrator: The man who would become an atheist was raised in a world steeped in religious belief.