A mad “shrink” high on cocaine, obsessed with sex, death and bizarre theories of the mind – that’s how many people remember ...

According to Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, dreams offered vital clues to unresolved conflicts buried deep within our psyche. But Freud’s theory, introduced in his ...

He may be known for controversial theories including desiring one’s mother, but Sigmund Freud was not as obsessed with sex as people think, an expert has claimed. Mistranslations in the work of ...

Freud had always been an active dreamer, and much of his self-analysis focused on dreams, convincing him conclusively in the wish-fulfillment theory.

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 ...

Freud certainly expected opposition and obloquy from the conventional moralists and the man-in-the-street for his theories about human sexuality; in actual fact, the general public took him to ...

If Noam Chomsky is the Devil’s Accountant, then Sigmund Freud is the Architect of Dreams. Not the whimsical kind involving rainbows and flying cows, but the kind where you’re chasing your ...