“Where does a thought go when it is forgotten?” It began with this question, born in the mind of Sigmund Freud. He spent his life answering this question (and its derivatives) and came up with ideas ...

Sigmund Freud’s model of the human mind is famous. He divided the psyche into three conflicting components. The superego represents the psychic embodiment of moral principles and norms derived from ...

Source: "Brain Illustrations," Denise Wawrzyniak, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 As is well known, Freud divided the human psyche into three functional parts: the id, ego, and superego. The id is a “dark ...

It's 75 years since the death of Sigmund Freud, and the words and phrases he popularised are deeply ingrained in popular culture and everyday language. How did Freudian jargon become so widespread?

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 the ...

A tour of Sigmund Freud's hometown through all three parts of the human psyche: the hyper-analytical superego, the imaginative ego, and the hedonistic id. Seeing the top sights might be enough for ...

“People who have not awakened to the mind live enslaved by the environment; they dream not only when they sleep, but even with their eyes open they are living in a dream.” — Ku San Sunim Just as there ...

Sigmund Freud's seminal texts on psychoanalysis sealed his position as the unofficial father of modern psychology. Whilst not subscribing to any explicitly political weltanschauung – or world-view – ...

It’s 75 years since the death of Sigmund Freud, and the words and phrases he popularised are deeply ingrained in popular culture and everyday language. How did Freudian jargon become so widespread?