In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of Leonardo ...

Freud turns to humanity's archaic past to explain the longing for an "exalted father." Narrator: Freud called religion an illusion. For over 30 years, he developed this idea in his enormous body of ...

LONDON — Throughout the city, 2024 was a year of art and other institutions centering women in their programming. With Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists, the Freud Museum, located in the ...

Sigmund Freud has been out of the scientific mainstream for so long, it's easy to forget that in the early-20th century he was regarded as a towering man of science--not, as he is remembered today, as ...

“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an audacious book ...

Sigmund Freud is credited with being the father of psychoanalysis. His work involved treating pathologies believed to have originated in the psyche. He was also deeply interested in the effects of ...

At the turn of the last century, Sigmund Freud shocked the world with what biographer Peter Gay called “his portrayal of man, the insatiable animal pushed and pulled by unrespectable, largely ...

At university, Freud discovers science and a secular worldview, discarding religion for good. Narrator: Freud's mentors were from the new world of science. In the early 1870s, scientists were ...

We stand now at a critical moment in the history of our civilization, which is usually the case: beset by enemies who irrationally embrace their own destruction along with ours, our fate in the hands ...