The Art Newspaper10d
How artists have used the ‘uncanny’ as a feminist strategy
The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment ...
The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs
Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...
Time19d
I’m a Therapist, and I’m Replaceable. But So Are You
When Sigmund Freud began treating patients in his Vienna office, he wasn't merely pioneering psychoanalysis—he was transforming how people dealt with life's everyday challenges. As sociologist ...
The Financial Times18d
Letter: Recalling Keynes’ quip on gold ‘the best prophylactic’
In his brilliant essay on gold (Life & Arts ... With or without the help from Sigmund Freud, world politics do matter. Even so nowadays, the era of unusual geopolitical uncertainty — that ...
The Financial Times29d
The Midas touch: 4,000 years of getting it wrong about gold
He challenged the Victorian fear of the future, the repressive inability to enjoy the present — with some help from Sigmund Freud ... the curious reader to a Freud essay from 1908, which ...
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‘Ignorance and Bliss’ argues knowledge isn’t always worth seeking
With the aid of a range of thinkers, from ancient stalwarts like Plato and Sophocles to modern fixtures like Sigmund Freud and Elias ... Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.” ...
Aeon19d
The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients
The artworks in a consulting room shouldn’t matter. Psychoanalysis is the talking cure: its medium is language. Sigmund Freud’s iconic couch was given to him as a present by a patient in 1890; Freud ...
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Die, O Yogi, Die; this Death Is Pleasing
Similarly, Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory suggests ... leaving behind a past self to make way for a new one. This essay explores the multifaceted dimensions of death as a perpetual ...