If you’ve ever been told “You’re in denial ,” you’re most likely familiar with the sensation of having been shamed for your ...

From a Freudian perspective, avoidability is a crucial factor in differentiating phobias from OCD. In phobia, the distressing thoughts are typically avoidable; individuals can distance themselves from ...

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916–1917) Here, Freud uses a humorous metaphor to describe the very nature of psychoanalysis. Once a person begins exploring their unconscious mind, the ...

Freud didn’t just invent psychoanalysis. He invented the modern notion of the self: that what we are is not just what we do, or say, or post on Instagram, but a bubbling cauldron of instincts ...

Think of Sigmund Freud, the “father of psychoanalysis”, and a few images probably come to mind. A smouldering cigar. His small wire-frame glasses. And of course, his psychoanalytic couch ...

May 6th is Sigmund Freud's 160th birthday. Let's start the celebration with some secrets. Freud had plenty. Some were about his own sexuality. Some were about his sons'. Some were about the ...

There is no writer or philosopher who has shaped the way we think about our own thoughts, dreams, relationships, and inner lives more profoundly than Sigmund Freud and the documentary Outsider.

Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain? “The past few years,” the academic and critic Merve Emre wrote in an essay for The New Yorker this past June, “have given us a Freud for the ...

Women intrigued Sigmund Freud, but they also baffled him. As the founder of psychoanalysis once said, “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to ...