There are more than thirty full-length biographies of Sigmund Freud in circulation today. Why keep writing them? Generally, there are two justifications for a new biography: an obscure archive may ...

May 6th would have been Sigmund Freud’s birthday, and, as I think about Freud’s legacy, I remember visiting the Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria, several years ago. I was struck by the humble ...

We've seen Batman vs. Superman, Captain America vs. Iron Man, and Freddy Krueger vs. Jason Voorhees, but the end of 2023 will introduce an all-new heavyweight match-up between renowned psychologist ...

A million years ago — well, actually it was 1978, but time slips by — “Saturday Night Live” aired a sketch that asked, “What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?” It was a follow-up to: “What if Napoleon ...

The first time I taught Freud was as a graduate student in the mid-1990s. At that time, most undergraduates were old enough to have grown up watching reruns of M*A*S*H*, a show that, once a season or ...