David Freud, Baron Freud David Freud, Baron Freud David Anthony Freud, Baron Freud, PC (born 24 June 1950) is a British politician. He is a former Minister of State for Welfare Reform in the Conservative Government of the United Kingdom. Before he joined the Conservative Party, he advised New Labour on welfare reform during its final term of office. He is a past vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS. He stepped down from his government role at the end of December 2016. Freud is the son of Walter Freud and a great-grandson of the physician and pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was educated at
Jacob Freud fantastic lightheartedness". Yet there is evidence that Jacob's meekness in the face of anti-Semitic bullying also disturbed Sigmund profoundly. Much of the latter's ambition, his combativeness, and his subsequent quest for powerful father figures such as Ernst Brücke and Josef Breuer, may be traced back to his ambivalence about his own yielding and 'vague' father. Jacob Freud Jacob Koloman Freud (1815–1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Born in town of Tysmenytsia in Austrian Galicia, and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah, he mainly earned his living as a wool