As children, my sister Bella and I had our own anthem. It was a bastardized version of a song from Jesus Christ Superstar, ...

Oral fixation may occur if a person’s needs are not met during a specific stage of childhood development, according to a theory introduced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Oral fixations include ...

The Role of Repression in the Development of Phobia vs. OCD Freud viewed the resolution of phobias as a successful outcome of repression during psychosexual development. In other words, a child ...

As someone who has been trained in, and has clinically implemented, Freud's theories, I believe that he understood the inner workings of the human mind better than anyone since the Buddha.

Sigmund Freud’s theories suggest that unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges influence human behaviour. Freud argued that human behaviour is largely determined by unconscious motivations that stem ...

That sort of excavation can be useful. Freud helps in forming an account of what people are drawn to in Trump—what pleasure, what gratification.

Women intrigued Sigmund Freud, but they also baffled him. As the founder of psychoanalysis once said, “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to ...

Today, thanks to Freud, the man-on-the-street knows (to quote by an inaccurate memory from Punch) that, when he thinks a thing, the thing he thinks is not the thing he thinks he thinks, but only ...