Among Vienna's more embarrassing secrets is the fact that one of its most celebrated residents, Sigmund Freud, hated it. Apparently he found the city of Mozart and Strauss claustrophobic, referring to it as a "prison" well before the Nazis arrived.
Little do most people know, the father of psychology, though constantly associated with Vienna and Austria, is actually from the Czech Republic–– though it wasn't called that back then. Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in a small Moravian town of Freiburg, which later became a part of Czechoslovakia, and then a part of the Czech Republic bearing the Czech name "Pribor".
[His given names were Sigimund Schlomo, but he never used his middle name and, after experimenting with the shorter form for some time, definitively adopted the first name Sigmund –– on occasion relapsing into the original formulation –– in the early 1870s, when he was a medical student at the University of Vienna.]
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