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  • But 100 years before that, in the 1880s, a guy by the name of Sigmund Freud - yeah, the father of psychoanalysis - was suiting up in white tie and gloves, attending soirees in Paris, and snorting a little cocaine to quote, untie his tongue.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Freud in the Barrington Stage Company premiere, did the name Sigmund Freud intimidate you somehow?

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • Although the meaning of the German term is difficult to capture in English, Sigmund Freud comes close: "An intellectual construction which gives a unified solution of all the problems of our existence in virtue of a comprehensive hypothesis, a construction, therefore, in which no question is left open and in which everything in which we are interested finds a place."

    UFO and Paranormal News 2010

  • To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, Why does sex make everyone so crazy?

    Seth Greenland: What Goes on in Albany, Stays in Albany 2008

  • An expert in various academic fields, ranging from science, astronomy, linguistics and theology to mathematics and musicology, he was closely acquainted with famous Viennese characters such as Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus (1874 – 1936) and the Social Democrat Victor Adler (1852 – 1918).

    Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein. 2009

  • As a student at the end of the 1960s, I was generally well read; like so many people of my generation, I had read a certain amount by Sigmund Freud and his followers but almost nothing about serious mental illness or how it was treated.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • I had read Sigmund Freud when I was a student at Oxford, but in this case, he was of singularly little help, since he dealt primarily with neurosis rather than psychosis.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • But as an artist and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, she has plenty to say about theories of the unconscious that have shaped our understanding of the human condition for more than century.

    Chipping Away at the Life of the Mind Jessica Firger 2011

  • “Settle a friendly wager for us, would you?” we'd say, and then repeat Sigmund Freud's enduring question, “What does a woman want?”

    Feminist Gift-Shopping is Man's Work Con Chapman 2011

  • Best Freudian Slip: On The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, Flight Time has a Freudian slip — literally — as he falls flat on his butt while transporting Sigmund Freud's couch to the University of Vienna.

    Top Moments: Dancing's Sex on a Stick and a Surprise 30 Rock Cameo 2011

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  • See Freud.

    September 10, 2010