New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud

Freud’s introduction to the concept of psychoanalysis was one that provided an explanation as well as a potential solution to an issue that was otherwise untreated: hysteria. Although Freud’s theory was met with heavy skepticism, it is a theory...

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a film so completely embedded with intentionally placed symbolism and plot that it is difficult to pinpoint a single theoretical lense in which to tackle the movie with; put simply, there is just too much going on. Aside...

At the end of his lecture entitled “The Paths to the Formation of Symptoms,” Freud addresses the artist as a psychoanalytic subject in a brief but intriguing tangent. Though artists are never again discussed after this brief passage, Freud’s...