Freud also developed influential theories about subjects such as the unconscious mind, the sources of psychopathology, the significance of dreams. Other concepts that are popularly associated with ...

Freud's theories profoundly impacted psychology, psychiatry, literature, and philosophy, but were controversial and criticized for a lack of empirical evidence. A few theories have been debunked ...

He was having, he wrote, "grave doubts" about his theory, leaving him in a state of what he described as "fathomless, and bottomless laziness, intellectual stagnation", Freud confessed.

But it was his book with Josef Breuer in 1895, Studies on Hysteria, which paved the way for Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis - the subject which he would become known as the founder of.

And this is something that Freud thought Breuer had failed to see. "The plunging into sexuality in theory and practice," Breuer wrote, "is not to my taste." Breuer objected that Freud had ...

From a Freudian psychoanalytic perspective, this preference may be interpreted as stemming from underlying unconscious drives, particularly those related to power, control, and symbolic masculinity.

as he was trying to confirm his hypotheses of his dream theory, and he betrayed her 15 months after she left him. Dora returned to see Freud and wanted to resume treatment but he refused to treat her.