A mad “shrink” high on cocaine, obsessed with sex, death and bizarre theories of the mind – that’s how many people remember ...

In Freud's view, repressed memories make themselves known by leaking out in mental and physical symptoms—symptoms that can be relieved only through recovering the traumatic memory in a safe ...

Did Freud get it wrong? Prof. Yacov Rofé of Bar-Ilan University thinks he could have.The whole structure of psychoanalysis may rest on Sigmund Freud’s concept of ‘repression,’ the burying of traumatic ...

Freud’s work is quoted more than 150 times in the OED, ... Many words and senses associated with Freud are still in common use—character-trait, repression, libido, ...

Repressed emotions are feelings that a person is unconsciously ignoring or blocking. The concept comes from psychoanalysis. ... According to Freud, repression is an entirely subconscious process.

Heavily emphasizing the role of childhood sexuality, repressed memories, dreams, fantasies, and narcissism, Freud invented the term “psychoanalysis” and offered what appeared to be a ...

Frustration and the repression of frustration became central to Freud’s thinking. In the 1890s he tried to understand the phenomena of pleasure, frustration, and forgetting at the neurological ...

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 ...

Merve Emre reviews Frank Tallis’s biography “Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, ... “The idea of repression makes Freud’s interest in sex logical,” Tallis writes.

Freud discovered that past trauma was underlying these symptoms. The trauma had been repressed into the unconscious mind, from where it caused physical and mental anguish.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George ...