In his “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis” (1916-17), Sigmund Freud brought the sad news that humanity has had “to endure from the hand of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.” ...

(To mark the 150 anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth, conductor Marin Alsop and author-director Didi Balle focus on a famous meeting between the composer and Sigmund Freud.) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ...

In classical psychoanalysis, as pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the patient reclines on a couch, while the therapist sits behind them, and so cannot be seen directly by the client.

Religion, to Sigmund Freud, is “a ludicrous dream, an insidious lie.” To C.S. Lewis, the truth of Christianity is backed up by evidence. “There is a God. Man doesn’t have to be an imbecile to believe ...