The New York Times’ daily brain-teaser Connections served up another challenging set on Wednesday, July 2, featuring themes that ranged from psychoanalysis to pop culture knockoffs. Puzzle #751 pushed ...

Freud’s theory of oral fixation is not supported by rigorous clinical evidence. There is a lack of up-to-date, reliable research on the topic, and his ideas are difficult to test.

While critiques and improvements of all psychological theories are inevitable, both members of the Freud family touched on a principle that appears to ring true over time: The stories we tell, no ...

In the late 1950s, Erikson published his own version of Freud's theory, which says we develop our personalities through eight stages of psychosocial growth.

This moment is an opportune one for a revival of Freud, whose work, with its signature focus on subterranean inner worlds, helps make sense of these tendencies and their implications for politics.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a revolutionary approach to understanding human psychology. Freud's theories profoundly impacted ...

Professor Crews revealed his skepticism of Freudian theory in this 1975 collection of essays. Oxford University Press Essentially, Professor Crews came to regard Freud as a charlatan.

Freud’s theory of infantile sexuality allowed him to pursue a startling critique of “ ‘civilized’ sexual morality,” as he called it, in his 1908 essay of the same name.

It is why " repression," or the unconscious inhibition of drives, is central to Freudian theory. According to the unified theory of psychology, both Freud's admirers and his detractors have a point.

Around the age of six, Freud theorized that a person’s superego began to form. Freud saw the superego as a guardian that pressured the ego to resist the id’s impulses in order to fit social norms.

In the midst of the First World War, Sigmund Freud delivered a famous series of lectures at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. For an audience of both clinicians and laypeople, the father of ...