How much of his work was informed by his life?

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The actors Mark Strong, left, and ...

A powerful politician’s night of triumph descends precipitously into waking-nightmare territory in the transfixing “Oedipus,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy from the British writer-director ...

Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, had only one experience at the Acropolis in Athens, but it seems to have been an intense one. He was an older man in 1904 and ...

The first time I came across Sigmund Freud was in the high school English classroom. My teacher — youngish and hippish — grimaced and apologised for the necessity of his appearance. After an article ...

Since his death in 1939, Sigmund Freud has had a rough go. Modern psychologists have pooh-poohed his ideas as unscientific. Ken Winkes is a retired teacher and high school principal, who grew up in ...

I don’t care how many people think Freud is a genius — I do not want to have sex with my mom. It’s my mom, for God’s sake. Do you have any idea how gross that sounds? I know about this Oedipus complex ...

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional. Several students on campus completing the Humanities (HUM) sequence have recently reported developing psychological symptoms in line ...