Freud's ideas are often maligned as obscure and even bizarre. Nevertheless, his works are still worth reading, even for those who disagree with his conclusions.

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

In this guest post, James Barnes argues that psychiatric diagnosis rests on a basic category error, one that doesn't ...

This remains the case even though in his later work, Freud revised his original concept of repression to argue that it ...

From this age, the human hippocampus can encode short-term memory traces, according to a pair of American researchers in the ...

Heirloom’s Rob Meyerson explores whether the horoscope-like world of brand archetypes is harming the industry. Maybe that’s ...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, hypothesized that early memories are repressed, though science has since largely dismissed the idea of an active suppression process. Instead ...

Leor Zmigrod’s hypothesis that some of us are born uniquely susceptible to radicalisation – rather than shaped by our ...

If we truly want to make America smart again, we must reject the culture of shortcuts, diluted curricula and intellectual complacency—and instead embrace a renewed commitment to rigor, inquiry and the ...

MUMBAI: By the end of 2027, over 25 landmark works such as The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud, History as a System ... studies in history, political science, literature, philosophy, anthropology ...

Between 1942 and 1945, four refugees from Vienna each published a ground-breaking – seminal – book.* They left their country after Austria was taken over by fascists in 1934 and by Nazi Germany in ...