Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

At this point, he's all of them. Anna Freud (voiceover): This is definitely a birthday ... it's the last birthday. Blum: Freud usually wound the clock in his study. He did not ... he was too sick.

Freud turns to humanity's archaic past to explain the longing for an "exalted father." Narrator: Freud called religion an illusion. For over 30 years, he developed this idea in his enormous body ...