From a Freudian perspective, avoidability is a crucial factor in differentiating phobias from OCD. In phobia, the distressing ...

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. If the human mind were a ...

May 6th is Sigmund ... It was about jokes. Freud so loved humor that he wrote Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, which has real merit as psychoanalytic theory, as an ethnography of humor ...

Sigmund Freud was trained as a neurophysiologist ... Before we can understand the unconscious, we must first go back to Freud's model of the mind and briefly describe the three major players ...

Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain ... The debate raged across disciplines—by that time, Freud and the psychoanalytic model had been absorbed into numerous other fields, including ...