Cultural Reader

Your thumb scrolls like a nervous rosary bead counter. It is 1:17 a.m. The room lies flat and black. Your face glows in the phone-light, a ...

The Search for a New Marxism After the Catastrophe In the wake of the First World War, European Marxists faced an uncomfortable reality: th...

Jean-Paul Sartre’s critique of Freudian psychoanalysis played a pivotal role in shaping his own approach to understanding human psychology. ...

Freudo-Marxism is a philosophical movement that aims to connect the works of Karl Marx and the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud . This inter...

Those interested in exploring the theories of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, often wonder where to start. Freud's work wa...

Sigmund Freud is best known for his theoretical work on the human mind and for his development of theories about the unconscious mind and it...

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) :  “The Future of an Illusion” Definition of religion:  “religion consists of certain dogmas, assertions abo...

Psychoanalytic and gender feminists believe “women’s way of acting is rooted deep in women’s psyche.”  For the psychoanalytic feminist, th...

Freud differs sharply from thinkers in sociology by beginning solely with the individual mind.   The question then is how does his psych...

1)      Freud begins discussing the uncanny as a feeling of dread, then as that same feeling being stirred up as a result of an encounte...