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Sigmund Freud

July 2024

  • Freud pictured in 1921.

    Freud was ‘misunderstood’ and wasn’t so obsessed with sex, new analysis of work suggests

  • Frederick Crews posing for a photo at his home in Berkeley, California on August 14, 2017.

    Frederick Crews obituary

June 2024

  • Matthew Goode as CS Lewis and Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Last Session.

    Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst

    Hopkins’ Sigmund Freud locks horns with Matthew Goode’s CS Lewis in an imaginary encounter that is watchable but not terribly profound

January 2024

  • Sigmund Freud

    Brief letters
    Think again about this Sigmund Freud revival

    Letters: Psychoanalysis comeback | World‑renowned floggers | Lights, camera, Croydon | Pantomime in parliament | Full-leaf failures

December 2023

  • freud illustration

    It's giving 2023
    ‘Psychoanalysis has returned’: why 2023 brought a new Freud revival

    A new film on the doctor is weak on the facts. But it marks a year in which we’ve turned to his theories to comprehend suffering – and to get treatment
  • Sigmund Freud in London in 1938

    Freud exhibition delves into a dramatic legacy in Latin America

    Early and enduring adoption of Freudian psychoanalysis puts paid to view of it being a European practice
  • Xmasbooks23 downpage ideas

    Best books of 2023
    Best ideas books of 2023

    From psychology to AI, pandemics to popular culture, we survey the bigger picture

October 2023

  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    Liverpool is spectacular and sometimes strange to walk around, but how it can make the heart ache

    Rachel Cooke
  • Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens

    Anthony Stevens obituary

September 2023

  • G2 dreams illustration by Shonagh Rae

    The sleep secret: how lucid dreams can make us fitter, more creative and less anxious

    Freud described dreams as windows into our repressed desires. Today, researchers are using them to boost athletic performance and help veterans with PTSD, unlocking huge benefits for us all

August 2023

  • Dramatic black-and-white image of the Acropolis at twilight c1907

    Tracing Freud on the Acropolis review – Freud’s big fat Greek guilt complex

  • Art Nouveau sofa with a retro TV set composite

    Succession’s daddy issues and The Flight Attendant’s rampant id: why Freud looms over TV in 2023

June 2023

  • Peter Pomerantsev

    What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer

    Peter Pomerantsev
    The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s history

March 2023

  • D. M. Thomas<br>Author D.M. Thomas holding lit cigarette while sitting on bench in his garden. (Photo by Ken Goff/Getty Images)

    DM Thomas obituary

    Author, poet and scholar of Russian literature whose greatest success came with his controversial 1981 novel The White Hotel

February 2023

  • Sigmund Freud in 1938 at his home in Hampstead, London, which is now the Freud Museum.

    Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film

    Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins, will feature a replica of the famous couch

August 2022

  • Sigmund Freud at his home in Hampstead, London, 1938.

    Book of the day
    Saving Freud by Andrew Nagorski review – a real-life thriller

    A gripping account of how colleagues and admirers spirited the psychoanalyst from Nazi-controlled Vienna to London

July 2022

  • Plenty to analyse … Esther and Albie, 1995, Lucian Freud’s painting of his daughter and grandson.

    ‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review

    The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch

April 2022

  • Hannah Booth in a swing chair

    What I’ve learned from 10 years of therapy - and why it’s time to stop

  • Freud Museum from the garden, with all sorts of colourful flowers

    Lucian Freud exhibition held at Freud Museum for the first time

January 2022

  • Waiting to catch each other out … Julian Bird (Sigmund Freud) and Séan Browne (CS Lewis) in Freud's Last Session.

    Freud’s Last Session review – the analyst and the Narnia author at loggerheads

    Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis have a debate about religion that applies the lost notion of civilised disagreement in Mark St Germain’s trenchant play
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