ame home and described a story of a man who knocked Freud's father's hat off because he was Jewish. Sigmund expecting a brilliant response was mortified to learn that his father did nothing but pick his hat off the ground and continue on. Sigmund was outraged by his fathers actions and swore that if the time came he would stand up for himself. This anger towards his father for not defending himself can also be seen as an underlining cause for the development of his Oedipus Complex.
             Having considered studying law previously, he decided instead on a career in medical research, beginning his studies at Vienna University (1873). His true love was for medicine above all; the idea of studying practicing medicine to him. As a student, Freud began research work on the central nervous system, guided by Ernst von Brücke (1876), and qualified as doctor of medicine in 1881. He worked at the Theodor Meynert's Psychiatric Clinic (1882-83) and later studied with Charcot, at the Salpetrière, in Paris (1885). He didn't receive his medical degree until 1881 because he saw neurological research was so engrossing that he neglected the prescribed course and remained in school for three years longer than was normally required.
             After medical school, Freud spent three years at the General Hospital of Vienna, devoting himself successively to psychiatry, dermatology, and nervous disease; in 1885 he left his post at the hospital. Freud began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was soon faced with patients whose disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence with no evidence to any sensory damage. He wondered if the problem could be psychological rather physiological. Freud's first published work, On Aphasia, appeared in 1891; it was a study of the neurological disorder in which the ability to pronounce words or to name common o...