Freud theorized that during development, people passed through five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a revolutionary approach to understanding human psychology. Freud's theories profoundly impacted ...

Childhood experiences have a great influence on personality. Everyone is born with sexual and aggressive urges -- urges that we must learn to control early in our lives. As we learn to control the ...

This week on Layers of Adaptation Theatre is Freud’s Last Session (now on Netflix), a movie based on a stage production (of the same title) based on a book (The Question of God by Armand Nicholi ...

Freud is known for his wide-ranging theories on matters such as the unconscious, dreams, infantile sexuality, libido, repression, and transference —all of which continue to influence the field ...