Sigmund Freud

Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

Padma Viswanathan Imagines Radically Different Paths Her Life Could Have Taken

 
By Padma Viswanathan  November 14, 2024
Gender

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

By Jennifer Finney Boylan  May 15, 2024
Medical history

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
Love and Romance

Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
Cundill History Prize

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
Photography

Who Really Invented the Selfie?

By Matt Colquhoun  August 14, 2023
On Poetry

Mitchell Untch on Grief and Letting the Subconscious Direct His Poems

By Literary Hub  June 12, 2023
Haunted Houses

“A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live

By GennaRose Nethercott  October 31, 2022
The Cosmic Library

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library   April 26, 2022
Science

Some Notes on Time, Memory, and the Artifacts We Leave Behind

By Kristin Keane  April 14, 2022
The History of Literature

What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

By History of Literature  April 4, 2022
Greek Literature

Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist

By Johanna Hanink  December 15, 2021
Lit Century

How Has Freud Changed the Way We Tell Our Stories?

By Lit Century   November 16, 2021
The Hub

Every book featured in HBO’s hit satire The White Lotus.

By Vanessa Willoughby  August 20, 2021
Psychology

Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

By Sidarta Ribeiro  August 16, 2021
The Paranormal

The Violent Haunting That Rattled an English Suburb

By Kate Summerscale  April 30, 2021
New Books Network

Was Freud a Scam Artist?

By New Books Network  November 25, 2020
Spirituality

Why Harry Houdini DID NOT Like Arthur Conan Doyle

By Chris Gosden  November 19, 2020
Psychology

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
Women's Bodies

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

By Clare Beams  February 11, 2020
Essay

My Year of Writing Anonymously

By Stacey D'Erasmo  December 11, 2018
In Memoriam

Anthea Bell, Translator of Sebald, Kafka, and Asterix, Has Died at 82

By Emily Temple  October 18, 2018
Features

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1910s

By Emily Temple  October 16, 2018
Deep Dive

Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

By Zachary Pace  April 25, 2018
Archives

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

By Emily Temple  April 20, 2018
Excerpts

Have We Always Been Depressed?

By Lynne Segal  November 29, 2017
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