If you've seen A Dangerous Method, then you already have some sense of the (in)auspicious beginnings of psychoanalysis. Freud demanded fierce loyalty and was frequently and famously threatened...

You can already tell that Freud looms large in psychoanalysis. He is larger-than-life, in fact. This "Father" of psychoanalysis wrote with a breadth, depth, clarity, and brilliance that made any la...

You have heard about how hard Freud had to fight to get his theory recognized as a theory. Before there could be debates, there were dismissals. And more dismissals. These lasted for a long time. T...

There's no denying that psychoanalytic theory has taken some hits when it comes to hipness. First, it was discredited as a science. In fact, many people never even believed it was a science at all....

What is literature? Lit's a lot. In psychoanalytic theory, literature is the complex of crazy images that make up the "work" of any dream. It's also more than meets the eye; like a good dream, it's...