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.

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 ...

In contrast to modern trait theories, those rooted in psychoanalytic ideas have tended to emphasize the potential role of early development in shaping personality. Sigmund Freud, the father of ...

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 ...

I wondered whether they were a distraction from grief, or a means of channelling the past, since Freud pulled heavily from ancient mythologies in his theories—Greek, Egyptian, and Etruscan—to ...

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 ...