The New York Times’ daily brain-teaser Connections served up another challenging set on Wednesday, July 2, featuring themes ...

Freud's theory suggests people can develop oral fixation if their needs are unmet during development. This may manifest as oral-based adult behaviors. Read more.

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 ...

I turned to Freud and his colleague to find out. Is The 19 Dating Theory Accurate? If you were a sociology nerd like me, you’d still remember memorizing flashcards for Erikson’s Eight Stages ...

Another Theory of the Trump Movement. Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain? ... Freudian psychoanalysis has, in the past several decades, faded from a feverish mid-century peak.

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 ...

But he gradually began to question the merits of Freudian theory, revealing his skepticism in a 1975 essay collection, “Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method.” ...

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.

Freud’s theory held that a child develops their superego after age six, and the superego serves to regulate their behaviors and help them achieve socially appropriate interactions. Read More: ...

He treads carefully in teaching Freud’s abandonment of the “seduction theory” (which proposed that neurotic symptoms were traceable to actual sexual abuse of children, as opposed to ...