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The Freud Files
How Freud explained dreams, desire, childhood and the talking cure.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis, explaining how unconscious desires, dreams, and slips of the tongue shape human behavior.
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Id, ego and superego
The id, ego, and superego are three interacting parts of the mind that Sigmund Freud proposed to explain internal conflict.
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Freudian Unconscious
The Freudian unconscious is the part of the mind holding hidden thoughts, drives, and memories that a person cannot inspect directly.
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Oedipus complex
Sigmund Freud defined the Oedipus complex as childhood desire for one parent and rivalry with the other, shaping adult conscience and neurosis.
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Psychosexual development
Sigmund Freud proposed that adult personality stems from how children resolve bodily conflicts across five distinct psychosexual stages.
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Dream interpretation
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to the images and stories experienced during sleep.
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Transference
Transference happens when a person unconsciously redirects feelings, expectations, or desires from past relationships onto someone in the present.
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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a talk therapy and theory of mind founded by Sigmund Freud to uncover unconscious drives, defense mechanisms, and resistance.