Drawing from five years of research, “Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis” delves into psychoanalytic ...

Two new books, “The Einstein of Sex” and “The Intermediaries,” argue for the largely forgotten importance of Magnus Hirschfeld, a German doctor ...

The Future of an Illusion (1927) This quote captures Freud’s faith in reason and the human capacity for insight. Even though rational thought may seem weak in the face of strong emotions and ...

In those periods, “Freud is mobilized to explain why the left failed—not because of institutions or specific forms of economic power or the Cold War, etc., but instead because of psychic ...

New Exhibition Unravels Sigmund Freud’s Complex Relationship With the Women in His Life and Work “Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists” spotlights the women who influenced the Austrian ...

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a revolutionary approach to understanding human psychology. Freud's theories profoundly impacted ...

I spent a year exploring it which culminated in my new book, Understanding Sublimation. What I discovered is that Freud’s theory of sublimation is all about riddles, and trying to solve them.