Left unchecked, the drive can be self-destructive, but when brought to the conscious mind through analysis, it can be mastered, as Freud had demonstrated with hysterical patients. Religion ...

The ego included conscious processes as well as unconscious ... Having conducted his own self-analysis, Freud trained new psychoanalysts in part by analyzing them. Subsequently, psychoanalysts ...

Freud thought of the self as a collection of distinct states of consciousness, each with its own qualities and traits. Studies showed that children who adopt an alter ego, the persona of a ...

A powerful self-portrait by Lucian Freud, on loan from the UBS Art Collection, features in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that explores the artist’s forensic gaze Lucian Freud, ...

she would talk of things she did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for further study ...