But the core of Freud’s point, that sex isn’t just about producing children, was revolutionary. “The standard view of sex in biology is that it’s a male and female copulating for the purpo ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...

Freud concluded that most of his neurotic patients ... The Interpretation of Dreams would lead to a revolution that would change the modern world.

“None of them understood that Freud was a rather conservative gentleman and shared none of their revolutionary social inclinations. “His taste in art, too, was really very conservativ ...

Freud, however, was the first to attempt to ... than through the immediate pressure of professional people. The French Revolution freed the mentally ill from chains and prisons.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A genuinely accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies. Few figures have had as much ...

Sigmund Freud, from his birth to the publication of his landmark book on dream interpretation. Dr. Freud revolutionary theories spawned the psychoanalytic school of psychology.