Freud also developed influential theories about subjects such as the unconscious mind, the sources of psychopathology, the significance of dreams. Other concepts that are popularly associated with ...

Before Freud, the idea of an unconscious mind “was an oxymoron”, Solms says. “Mental and conscious used to mean the same thing, so the idea that there are mental forces you can be unaware of ...

Left unchecked, the drive can be self-destructive, but when brought to the conscious mind through analysis, it can be mastered, as Freud had demonstrated with hysterical patients. Religion ...

Maybe this is a consequence of pop-psych-speak, which is just a watered-down, popular Freudianism. In his book Genius, Harold Bloom calls this phenomenon Freud’s “mythology of the mind surviv ...

But, in the months following his father's death, Freud's confusion deepened. To quiet his own mind, he would have to face the truth about his father, based on his own analysis, and then reject it.

Quick question for you before we get fully underway. What comes to your mind when I mention the name Sigmund Freud? I’m sure a boatload of thoughts tends to arise. Sigmund Freud is nearly a ...