The focus on trauma as the pivotal underlying cause has continued to dominate the public’s understanding of memory loss. And ...

Nineteenth-century psychoanalytic theorist Sigmund Freud developed the concept of repression. He considered it a defense ...

Herbert Marcuse took pride in his dense, but incomplete writings on philosophy. Dr. Gordon examines Jacob McNulty‘s futile attempt to interpret the thinking of ...

The Trump Administration wants to punish schools for student activism. Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, argues that colleges don’t have to roll over.

Whether man is a social or an irrationally reacting mess of protoplasm, depends on whether his fundamental biological needs ...

It should also be pointed out that Freud was wrong about the nature and effects of "sexual repression"—in other words, abstinence. He considered it the taproot of all neuroses, and the sexual ...

The beliefs of Freud and Hitler are explored in 'V13,' a film about a wealthy pianist and a struggling painter living in ...

The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to ...

In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua revealed structures of systematic repression that quelled anti-government protests that erupted in 2018 and left at least ...