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January 2025

Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by Dan Hancox review – a hymn to coming together

A celebration of ‘capitalism-subverting, ego-transcending’ mass gatherings – from Peterloo to M25 raves, Orgreave to Notting Hill carnival

November 2024

Sex and taboos: how Sigmund Freud’s ideas freed secrets of the female psyche

An exhibition at the psychoanalyst’s London home and two new stage shows have reopened the debate on women’s desires

October 2024

Freud is coming back into fashion

What Sigmund Freud can teach us about the Middle East and #MeToo

Jacqueline Rose

July 2024

Freud was ‘misunderstood’ and wasn’t so obsessed with sex, new analysis of work suggests

Frederick Crews obituary

June 2024

Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst

Hopkins’ Sigmund Freud locks horns with Matthew Goode’s CS Lewis in an imaginary encounter that is watchable but not terribly profound

January 2024

Brief letters
Think again about this Sigmund Freud revival
Letters: Psychoanalysis comeback | World‑renowned floggers | Lights, camera, Croydon | Pantomime in parliament | Full-leaf failures

December 2023

It's giving 2023
‘Psychoanalysis has returned’: why 2023 brought a new Freud revival
A new film on the doctor is weak on the facts. But it marks a year in which we’ve turned to his theories to comprehend suffering – and to get treatment

Freud exhibition delves into a dramatic legacy in Latin America

Early and enduring adoption of Freudian psychoanalysis puts paid to view of it being a European practice

Best books of 2023
Best ideas books of 2023
From psychology to AI, pandemics to popular culture, wesurvey the bigger picture

October 2023

Notebook
Liverpool is spectacular and sometimes strange to walk around, but how it can make the heart ache
Rachel Cooke

Anthony Stevens obituary

September 2023

The sleep secret: how lucid dreams can make us fitter, more creative and less anxious

Freud described dreams as windows into our repressed desires. Today, researchers are using them to boost athletic performance and help veterans with PTSD, unlocking huge benefits for us all

August 2023

Tracing Freud on the Acropolis review – Freud’s big fat Greek guilt complex

Succession’s daddy issues and The Flight Attendant’s rampant id: why Freud looms over TV in 2023

June 2023

What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer

Peter Pomerantsev
The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s history

March 2023

DM Thomas obituary

Author, poet and scholar of Russian literature whose greatest success came with his controversial 1981 novel The White Hotel

February 2023

Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film

Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins, will feature a replica of the famous couch

August 2022

Book of the day
Saving Freud by Andrew Nagorski review – a real-life thriller
A gripping account of how colleagues and admirers spirited the psychoanalyst from Nazi-controlled Vienna to London

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