Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th ... FREUD: "I recall an anecdote I often heard repeated in my childhood. At the time of my birth an old peasant-woman had prophesied to my proud mother that ...

Many children choose to follow peers with more narcissistic tendencies—and self-esteem may be part of the complex power dynamics involved ...

“Those early childhood events are so formative ... The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by Mark Solms, is available here.

Freud didn’t just invent psychoanalysis. He invented the modern notion of the self: that what we are is not just what we do, or say, or post on Instagram, but a bubbling cauldron of instincts, ...

On one side stood Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, who told us to search the past—to unearth childhood traumas, explore repressed memories, and decode the unconscious mind.