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, ...

Research indicates that discussions, debates, and studies in the 19th and 20th centuries explored personal agency and ...

The term defense mechanisms fit Freud's original concept of ego defense mechanisms against anxiety, and this is one notion that holds up better under modern scrutiny than many other Freudian ideas.

A quote that has circulated on the internet for at least a decade has been attributed to a number of people—most notably to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The quote says: “Before you ...