In our hyper-connected digital age, social media has transformed into a modern-day coliseum of public judgment—where voices ...

Nostalgia, as they say, is a helluva drug. It is also freely available and widely consumed, especially now, as the Oasis ...

At the outset I want to make clear my intention is not to criticize or excuse any player, coach, or manager today. I aim to be fair, neutral, objective, and merely to raise questions over which you ...

You don’t have to be Dr Freud, or even Dr Ruth, to recognise this psychosexual dimension to Trump’s attempt to upend the entire regime of international trade.

Instead, he wrote: “It is a moment for thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, who warned in 1915 that the ‘primitive, savage and evil impulses of mankind have not vanished in any individual’, but ...

Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right track—so he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most ...

This emphasis on incompatible drives or impulses is central to Freud’s attempt to solve the riddle of da Vinci. What is key is the phrase “an alien interest”.

The idea that prowess in activities like playing chess or writing poetry might be “fuelled” by frustrated, unconscious sexual desire is fairly well known today. But writing more than a century ago, ...

The joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?

After those two monumental works, the next wave of Freud biographies seemed to respond to a strong reciprocal impulse; after all, he had written the most influential biography of us—of man, a ...