title: [The historical achievement and the limits of the work of Sigmund Freud (1855-1939)].
abstract: In this paper written on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 125th birthday, an attempt is made to strike a balance of earlier marxist assessments of Freud's work. After a short presentation of the more important biographical and work-historical data, mainly Freud's antropological basic conceptions and their problematic consequences for his personality-theory are dealt with. Freud's historically important achievement is seen in the opening of a psychological access to the understanding of neuroses as well as the discovery of dynamic processes in the psychotherapeutic encounter.
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D005619:Freudian Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Die historische Leistung und die Grenzen des Werkes von Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).