Sublime

Freud set out to develop a medical specialism but succeeded in producing a complex system of thought, a new way of understanding the mind, relationships, history and culture.

Freud est le premier penseur moderne à avoir soutenu que le cerveau des émotions était le vrai pilote de la conscience. Pour lui, ce sont l’inquiétude et la honte qui poussent les gens à prendre de mauvaises décisions, à faire des excès ou à compenser ce dont ils ont l’impression de manquer. C’est lui qui a découvert que l’identité se construisait

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most important figures in the history of psychology, said that unless the personality has love, it sickens and dies.

The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur is full of imagery and incident that lends itself to psychoanalytic interpretation: the minotaur - half man, half animal - embodies the essential conflict between ego and id; the labyrinth, which coincidentally resembles the sulci of the cortex, suggests the complexities of the mind. In 1927, Freud told an int

The informal leader of this whole crew, of course, was Sigmund Freud.

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,