Have you ever accused someone of projecting something onto you? For example, let's say you had a manager who clearly felt inadequate in their leadership skills.

But instead of acknowledging their own feelings of insecurity, they projected those feelings onto their team.

Maybe the manager started accusing team members of being incompetent or not pulling their weight, insisting that they weren't really meeting expectations when actually it was clearly the manager who wasn't up to snuff. Or to pick a different psychological term, your partner or

co-worker always seemed to be trying to one-up their sibling. Their sibling buys a new car.

They have to buy a new car. If their sibling gets a promotion, they suddenly start working

extra hard. Maybe they have an obvious case of sibling rivalry. Or perhaps you've

known someone with a pretty close relationship with their mom, like, ugh, what exactly is going on there?

Close. And little alarm bells go off in the back of your head. Eipus complex. Eipus complex.

Rejection, sibling rivalry, edipus complex. Did you know that all these terms were

invented by Viennese psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud? Born in a small village of the Austro-Hungarian

empire called Freiburg in 1856, Sigmund Freud didn't seem destined for much at birth. His father was a

wool trader who didn't have much success, was even implicated in some criminal activities,

and if he hadn't been, life was always unpredictable and difficult for Jews living in Europe in the 19th century.

Most could only realistically hope to survive.

Eke out a meager living, support their family, not thrive.

But when the Freud family moved to Vienna when Freud was a little boy, young

Sigmund found himself immersed in a so-called Jewish Renaissance, a period of time in which Jewish

intellectuals were making massive contributions to medicine, culture, to arts, literature, and politics,

and being financially rewarded for doing so. His parents must have been so pleased to see Freud

become a doctor,

improving the status of his family and community, but Freud wasn't really interested in what happened

in the body. He wanted to know what happened in the mind. Freud wanted to investigate the psychological

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