Before Freud, the idea of an unconscious mind “was an oxymoron”, Solms says. “Mental and conscious used to mean the same thing, so the idea that there are mental forces you can be unaware of ...

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 ...

Freud's understanding of, and focus on, the unconscious distinguishes him from all other clinicians and philosophers of mind that came before, and from those who have since tried to replace his ...

As Adam Phillips, a psychoanalyst and essayist, notes in the film, “Freud’s discovery of the unconscious was the central drama of his life. He discovered two things: That the unconscious was a ...

“In 1899, Sigmund Freud released his groundbreaking book ‘The Interpretation of Dreams.’ He proposed a new theory on the meaning behind dreams and how they relate to the unconsciou ...