Freud

The mother of all newsletters: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we reach the end of another bustling workweek and tee up another well-earned weekend – not just any weekend, of course, but the weekend of Mother’s Day 2022. We know you’ve been busy. Don’t worry, it’s not...

One of my bachelor’s degrees is in psychology. I wanted to be a therapist or psychologist to help others. I’ve always been intrigued with human development and the vastness of the mind. For a while, I worked as a school psychologist, but that role is more about testing and shuffling paperwork than working one-on-one with individuals, so I moved on to other avenues. Nonetheless, I’ll be forever grateful for the knowledge I gained in those undergraduate years.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Aciman, Colm Toibin and Rick Moody are among the authors contributing to an essay collection on the legacy of Sigmund Freud. “On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud,” conceived and edited by the literary agent Andrew Blauner, is scheduled for release in 2023 by Princeton University Press.

Join us for an evening of love, laughter, and highly unqualified brain analysis as we talk about the trials and tribulations involved with relationships. Susie Boggess and Creator of Party Freud—a new game for people who probably need therapy (ahem, everyone!)— will host a special Valentine’s Day Emergency Session featuring comedians Liz Pollack, Morgan Miller, and Leslie Liao as well as a special performance by artist Reign Morton.

The world premiere of "Vienna," a two-person play starring Harris Yulin and Stacy Keach as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, will be available on YouTube from Sunday through Wednesday at 8 p.m. The free broadcast is a benefit for the Actors Fund. "Stacy and I are always on the lookout...

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung had a long, intense relationship, a competitive friendship that was undone by their rivalry. So portraying the dynamics between these icons in the field of psychology requires a chemistry, ideally one born of history together. In Jim McGrath’s “Vienna,” the newest entry from Stacy Keach Zoom Theater, Keach, as Jung, reunites with his old friend, Harris Yulin’s Freud, bringing decades of friendship and collaboration to the task.

I found in Paradise Lost an unexpected affinity among its author, the psychoanalyst, and myself. What the anti-Semite Ezra Pound called the poet’s “beastly hebraism” held the key.

The royal wedding of then Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on November 20th, 1947 at the Westminster Abbey in London was a festive day marked by grand celebrations. Contemporary British newspapers gushed about every aspect of the wedding, from the hundreds of gifts sent to the young couple by well-wishers—the young princess was sent eighty pairs of nylons and a mink coat and silver from Canada—to the mysterious design of her gown.

Ronald Fairbairn is the father of object relations theory. Fairbairn's work bridged the theoretical divide between Freud's Oedipal framework and Bowlby's attachment theory. A new collection of papers offers new insights into the relationship between object relations theory and psychic organization. Who Is Ronald Fairbairn?. Ronald Fairbairn may be the...