Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916–1917) Here, Freud uses a humorous metaphor to describe the very nature of psychoanalysis. Once a person begins exploring their unconscious mind, the ...

Freud didn’t just invent psychoanalysis. He invented the modern notion of the self: that what we are is not just what we do, or say, or post on Instagram, but a bubbling cauldron of instincts ...

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“Satire provides an outlet, for both creator and reader—at the very least, you can laugh at the malevolent incompetence of it all.” Laughter is also self-defense. Sigmund Freud, who knew a ...

But why do we, whatever our linguistic or cultural background, love watching comedians trying desperately hard not to laugh at each ... of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud suggests our subconscious ...

Think of Sigmund Freud, the “father of psychoanalysis”, and a few images probably come to mind. A smouldering cigar. His small wire-frame glasses. And of course, his psychoanalytic couch ...

Sigmund Freud was profoundly affected by World War I and the run-up to World War II. Witnessing the devastation of Europe in 1914-1918 changed the direction of his development of psychoanalytic ...