Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Freud has been celebrated as the first man to achieve a successful self-analysis. His efforts to chart his own unconscious led to The Interpretation of Dreams. (source)
Freud was totally addicted to cigars and smoked upwards of twenty a day. Sadly, his addiction led to painful illnesses, surgery, and his eventual death. (source)
Freud had other character quirks as well, which he believed were symptoms of deep unconscious repression. One was a phobia of traveling to Rome; another was "a tendency to faint in the presence of talented male friends." (source)
Freud's theories of dreaming have been taken up—and sometimes parodied—all over the place in pop culture. Want an example? In one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data consults a Sigmund Freud holodeck program in the hopes of learning more about the nightmares that have been troubling his sleep. (source)