The father of psychoanalysis transformed how we think about the mind in general and sexuality in particular, but he was a real cigar-and-slippers guy around the house.

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 ...

I n the midst of the First World War, Sigmund Freud delivered a famous series of lectures at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. For an audience of both clinicians and laypeople, the father of ...

Three years later, their differences prevailed, sparking one of the most interesting intellectual conflicts in the history of thought. But in 1909, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were gazing together ...

A new show at London’s Freud Museum throws feminist ideas at the wall to see what sticks.

Top 5 Psychology Theories from Sigmund Freud Whether we realize it or not, Freud’s psychology theories have shaped Western culture through dreams, the Freudian slip and the human psyche.

All this being said, compared with his contemporaries, Sigmund Freud was indeed a compassionate, forward-thinking physician. He became a doctor at a time when lesbianism and masturbation were ...