From Aristotle to Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow, countless theories and concepts for understanding personality have been proposed. Throughout history, these and other great minds sought to answer ...

Neuroscientists are finding that their biological descriptions of the brain may fit together best when integrated by psychological theories that Freud sketched a century ago The founder of ...

While its relevance in modern psychology has been largely contested, understanding its origins and implications offers valuable insight into the historical development of thought on human desire and ...

Also called the oedipal complex, the Oedipus complex is a term used in the psychosexual stages of development theory by Sigmund Freud. The concept, first proposed by Freud in 1899 and not formally ...

Matthew Gullo receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychology, has recently suffered some serious knocks. His theories ...

Penis envy is a theory from early psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He believed that when female children realize they lack a penis, they feel “castrated” in comparison to males. Freud believed this was a ...