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.

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 ...

As proposed by Sigmund Freud, the ego ... Consider your own alter ego(s). Whether you call it that or not, most people have different personae they put on for different situations.

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 ...