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 ...

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 ...

In certain ways, science and medicine have expanded on his observations and theories and taken them in new directions; in others, contemporary thinkers have explored the psyche in ways Freud might ...

Freud was inventing psychoanalysis bit by bit, layer upon layer. As he analyzed himself in solitude, searching for ways to explore the hidden recesses of his mind, he turned to dreams to help him.

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 ...