It goes back 130 years, to Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of modern psychology. He described something he called projection, in ...

The novelist on grief, being a terrible liar, and wanting to join the circus Born in London, Esther Freud, 63, is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and Lucian Freud. She trained as an actor and, in ...

Both of Freud's parents were raised in devout Jewish families; his paternal grandfather, for whom he was named, was a chassidic Rabbi, and his father, Jakob, was steeped in Jewish learning. By the ...

Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams late in 1899. It has outsized importance among his writings, as arguably the founding document of psychoanalysis. In his own estimation, the book ...

Many years ago, a woman my wife and I both know had a sibling who committed suicide. She was naturally overwhelmed by grief, to the point of despair, and said to my wife and me, “I’m just in this ...

A new article published in the neurocognitive journal Entropy argues that Sigmund Freud's model of the mind, as well as more recent psychoanalytic theory, has similarities with the leading model in ...

Psychoanalysis is having a moment. Instagram accounts dedicated to Freudian theory have amassed nearly 1.5 million followers. Television shows like Orna Guralnik’s Couples Therapy have become ...

In several philosophy courses that I teach at St. John’s University, I have students read and discuss Viktor E. Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning” (A Clarion Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, ...

Jill Freud, the longtime actress whose final big-screen role was in Love Actually and who was the inspiration for Lucy in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, has died, according to her daughter Emma ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...