Freud's theories profoundly impacted psychology, psychiatry, literature, and philosophy, but were controversial and criticized for a lack of empirical evidence. A few theories have been debunked ...

Freud also developed influential theories about subjects such as the unconscious mind, the sources of psychopathology, the significance of dreams. Other concepts that are popularly associated with ...

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.

He was having, he wrote, "grave doubts" about his theory, leaving him in a state of what he described as "fathomless, and bottomless laziness, intellectual stagnation", Freud confessed.

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And this is something that Freud thought Breuer had failed to see. "The plunging into sexuality in theory and practice," Breuer wrote, "is not to my taste." Breuer objected that Freud had ...

Fans of the Apple TV+ series Severance are reeling after the latest episodes, particularly the unsettling Chikhai Bardo, which appears to seal the fate of Gemma Scout, played by Dichen Lachman. The ...

If you love to get down to the nitty gritty of psychoanalytic theory, the Freud Museum hosts loads of fascinating talks and film screenings to sink your teeth into. Have a look at what’s coming ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...