When the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon first met in the 1950s, Freud was little known beyond a small circle of supporters while Bacon was a rising star in Britain's art world. Their fraught ...

In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of Leonardo ...

This quote comes as a sharp, thought-provoking reminder that challenges self-diagnosis, urging reflection on toxic ...

Please be advised that I am in possession of previously undiscovered secret documents that offer a new perspective on the life of Sigmund Freud. I enclose some samples for your perusal: Originally, ...

A long-hidden landscape painting attributed to Lucian Freud is on sale, after it was discovered beneath a work by another artist who was Freud’s contemporary at an unconventional art school in rural ...

“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an audacious book ...

Distraught by war and personal loss, Freud publishes his views on society's dangers and delusions. Narrator: Freud saw human life drawn between two powerful and opposing forces: the life force on the ...

Sigmund Freud has been out of the scientific mainstream for so long, it's easy to forget that in the early-20th century he was regarded as a towering man of science--not, as he is remembered today, as ...

Little known fact: four of Sigmund Freud’s five younger sisters died in the Nazi gas chambers, and he could have saved them. But he didn’t. Of course, he didn’t know what he wasn’t saving them from.

Sigmund Freud is credited with being the father of psychoanalysis. His work involved treating pathologies believed to have originated in the psyche. He was also deeply interested in the effects of ...