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The Future of an Illusion (1927) This quote captures Freud’s faith in reason and the human capacity for insight. Even though rational thought may seem weak in the face of strong emotions and ...
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 ...
Freud had long been intrigued by the Renaissance polymath (an obscure 1900 Russian novel on Leonardo was among his favorites), but his new Viennese patient prompted a deeper investigation. In a ...
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic couch, his books, and his seldom-discussed collection of antiquities are exhibited at Freud Museum London, where the writer and psychoanalyst lived during the last ...
In the 19th century, hysteria was a disorder that confounded doctors. Today, not much has changed. Sigmund Freud first proposed that mental trauma could become physical disability 100 years ago ...
Freud sees the doubleness of da Vinci’s portrayal of women (as both Madonnas and whores) as unconsciously linked to the mother-child relationship, especially in early care and breastfeeding.
Sigmund Freud’s last surviving grandchild, she fled the Nazis in Vienna, became a professor in America and argued that psychoanalysis was a “narcissistic indulgence.” By Sam Roberts June 3, 2022 ...
Dedicated to “Sigmund Freud, blameless physician,” its chapters flit between H.D.’s memories of her sessions with “the Professor” and memories of her father and mother, her stillborn ...
Culture How Judaism mattered to Sigmund Freud — and why Freud mattered to Jews Naomi Seidman writes about the relationship between Freud and the Yiddish and Hebrew translations of his work ...
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