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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.