Freud
Clinical

Aphanisis and the Changing Nature of Sexual Desire: A Psychological Perspective

Aphanisis was derived from a Greek term associated with disappearance or vanishing. The term was proposed by Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones in the 1920s while discussing the development of feminine sexual life. He suggested that the loss of sexual pleasure, a fearful experience, has great psychological significance, and he argued it could be even more fundamental

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Personality

Id, Ego, and Superego: Freud’s Structural Theory of the Psyche

Imagine that it is midnight and you have found the last piece of cake in the fridge. One part of you is screaming, “It’s mine!” while another is whispering, “You already brushed your teeth.”, and the third part is telling you that this was supposed to be your sister’s piece. Such a scenario is what

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Sleep

Understanding Dreams: Freud, Jung, and the Neuroscience of REM Sleep

The human dream state remained a mystical province for centuries, reserved for divine intervention. However, in this day and age, in modern psychology, especially for students at the crossroads between Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, dreams have been turned into a sophisticated cognitive exercise. The “language” of dreams is a complex synthesis where the primal energies

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