Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

The secret history of a psychoanalytic cult.

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?

Hannah Zeavin’s history of remote and distance psychotherapy asks us whether the medium matters more than the message.

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.

How the master of suspense got his sadistic streak.

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

Clare Beams on women's bodies and the power of names.

Amid all the imperial aspiration, wooly-minded New Age mythologizing, and pure unadulterated commerce, the obelisk stands tall.

You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.

Once lauded as a wonder of the age, cocaine soon became the object of profound anxieties. What happened?

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.

A miracle cure for addiction may not be around the corner.

A better understanding of propaganda and how to use it as an educational tool could advance the world in a positive way.

Long before the hippies, a group of thinkers used substances like cocaine, hashish, and nitrous oxide to uncover the secrets of the mind.

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.