Source: Ferdinand Schmutzer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. December 3 is the 120th anniversary of Anna Freud's birth. She was a profoundly influential child psychoanalyst. Still, her main ...

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 ...