Sigmund Freud’s Maxillary Jawbone Cancer (1856-1939)

As main theorist of psychoanalysis, he rethought the psychic apparatus and processes, and in the first place the concepts of the unconscious, dream and neurosis. Then, he proposed treatment techniques and psychoanalytic therapy. Freud gathered a generation of psychotherapists who progressively created psychoanalysis everywhere. Despite internal divisions and criticism coming from some psychiatrists as well as the outbreak of World War II, psychoanalysis appeared as a new discipline of social studies from 1920. In 1938, as he was threatened by the Nazi regime, Freud left Vienna to go into exile in London where he died of cancer in 1939.