From the oracles of ancient Rome to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, humans have long turned to the dream world to decode the mysteries of the mind. Lu Chin's mid-16th century painting entitled "Zhuangzi ...

Sigmund Freud believed that personality develops through five stages focused on different body parts. Freud's theory has been criticized for only focusing on heterosexual males and not considering ...

Just before his 67th birthday, a bearded, scholarly-looking man suffering from leukoplakia appeared at the clinic of Vienna Rhinologist Marcus Hajek. The patient had a group of hard, smooth white ...

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For two generations, Emma Jung—the wife of the famous Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung—was remembered inside her family mostly as a beloved mother and grandmother. Her original work documenting the deep ...

Some people are aware that they are dreaming, which is called lucid dreaming. Scientists think this state may have a trigger in the brain. Lucid dreamers can learn to control their dreams or practice ...

And add some extra, just for you. How many times had I read a version of these lines or heard them recited? The opening stanza of Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse” is a favorite of fictional ...

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