The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president Ben Yagoda, photography by Ellen Jane Rogers The couch on which Freud’s patients lay became ...

Adamancy is the word for both Sigmund Freud and Frederick Crews. In his new biography, “Freud: The Making of an Illusion,” the UC Berkeley professor emeritus castigates the fraudulent founder of ...

Review of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. By Adam Phillips. Yale University Press. 178 pp. $25. Although he wrote speculative accounts about the lives of Moses, Michelangelo, ...

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Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? On the death of Sigmund Freud, W.H. Auden memorably observed that he was ...