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 ...

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 ...

Sigmund Freud was profoundly affected by World War I and the run-up to World War II. Witnessing the devastation of Europe in 1914-1918 changed the direction of his development of psychoanalytic ...

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 ...

In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of ...

This introspect felt appropriate before touring the Sigmund Freud Museum, which I visited in the fall of 2022. While there was a sign disrupting its hedging, the Victorian house-museum did not ...