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.” ...

On May 6 we celebrate the birth anniversary of one of the most revolutionary minds- Sigmunf Freud. The man, who gave birth to psychoanalysis, was not just a pioneering neurologist. He was a ...

It’s all Freud, baby. Where Marx saw class conflict and Darwin saw natural selection, Freud saw repression. Civilisation, he argued, was a trade-off. We get security, but we give up freedom.

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.

This was an urge whose repetition was foreseen by W. H. Auden, in his 1940 poem “In Memory of Sigmund Freud”: When there are so many we shall have to mourn, ...