Depression may be grief turned inward. Therapy helps us mourn not just what we lost, but who we became in relation to that ...

There’s an academic exercise in psychology classes that asks students to take Sigmund Freud’s concept of the id, ego, and superego and apply it to characters from The Simpsons. Homer’s impulsiveness ...

A mad “shrink” high on cocaine, obsessed with sex, death and bizarre theories of the mind – that’s how many people remember ...

The Ego, the Id, and the Oh-So-Fraught Superego Freud’s most enduring contribution is the structural model of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego.

In his book Genius, Harold Bloom calls this phenomenon Freud’s “mythology of the mind surviv [ing] his supposed science.” Though his scientific legitimacy has been rebuked, Freud’s validity, I’d argue ...

As proposed by Sigmund Freud, the ego (in contrast to the id and the superego) is the conscious part of a person’s personality—the awareness of one’s self and how that self is projected to ...

Today, thanks to Freud, the man-on-the-street knows (to quote by an inaccurate memory from Punch) that, when he thinks a thing, the thing he thinks is not the thing he thinks he thinks, but only ...

During the past month two new translations of Sigmund Freud made their appearance on U. S. bookstalls. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE— Sigmund Freud—Boni & Liveright ($1.50). GROUP PSYCHOLOGY ...