Personal change doesn’t begin with willpower—it starts with identity. Through the lens of a simple yet powerful analogy—a smoker deciding not just to quit, but to stop identifying as one—this ...

There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

Article citations More>> Freud, S. (1905). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Hogarth Press. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: An Outline of Sublimation from a Freudian Perspective ...

How 'DEI' replaced 'structural racism' in the national conversation Media framing of racial issues has changed since the George Floyd protests.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a revolutionary approach to understanding human psychology. Freud's theories profoundly impacted psychology, ...

Neurologist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud developed the Freudian theory of motivation. According to the theory, people’s choices are largely based on their unconscious behaviour. This means that ...

Let's summarize the core of Freud's psychology and then update the critical insights based on the unified theory.

Let's summarize the core of Freud's psychology and then update the critical insights based on the unified theory.

The id is the instinctual, illogical part of the self. The part of the brain that just wants. But the source of the id’s want is very specific: The id is a pleasure-seeking impulse. It’s not motivated ...