Freud's Last Session

This philosophical debate between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis is richest when it shows their humanity

"...Satan. Heaven and oblivion. The dualities under discussion in Freud's Last Session are as big as they come. Of..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Freud's Last Session Opens in Austin

Actor David Jarrott turns producer to get a drama about Freud and C.S. Lewis onstage in Austin

"...That's part of what makes this week's arrival of Freud's Last Session notable. It shows the profound response that..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Anna Freud: Under Analysis

"...Directed by: Alana Cash. The life of Anna Freud, the youngest child of Sigmund and Martha Freud who..."

Sept. 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg forgoes his customary viscera for the more unknowable id as Drs. Jung and Freud hash out the origins of our unconscious impulses.

"...work A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein), the film opens with a Russian..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snakes on a Plane

This solid little B-movie arrives cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon.

"...more like this character. Phereomone-induced testosterone aside, and paraphrasing Sigmund Freud, sometimes a killer-snake movie is just a killer-snake..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Afraid of the Dark

"...Fox, Fanny Ardant and Paul McGann Clare Holman. If Sigmund Freud had directed horror movies they might have looked..."

Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Politics Gift Guide

Slip into something more comfortable with Perry, Freud, and more

"...Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Andy Warhol, Socrates: One of these things is..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery

A murder mystery with a healthy dose of Freudian psychoanalysis

"...like your murder mysteries with a healthy dose of Freudian psychoanalysis, here's a sweet read for you. Set in..."

March 5, 2010 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

'Eggheads'

Novelist Joseph Skibell reflects on his adventures in the screen trade that produced this screwball comedy

"...like the Marx Brothers but look like Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. The former image came from..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and present..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...1) a typed note from Sigmund Freud observing that "dass Dichter und Analytiker aus denselben..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Luv Doc: Dogstar Dick

Maybe "Junior Johnson" could be the sequel?

"...– and this dream is a doozy. Imagine if Sigmund Freud got his psychoanalytic mittens on this one. While..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)

Remembering James Hillman

"...such figure has appeared. The geniuses of psychology – Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, R.D. Laing, Hillman –..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

A Curable Romantic: A Novel

A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud

"...better to swoop in like a superhero than ur-therapist Sigmund Freud? And so the duke of daddy issues unwittingly..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

Eggheads

Eggheads pays fond tribute to the cinematic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and though the specific style of those comedies was old decades before the actors in Tongue and Groove Theatre's production were born, they breezed through it, cracking wise and slinging slang, as nimbly as Busby Berkeley chorines tapping down 42nd Street.

"...If the idea of Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and Albert Einstein chucking their respective..."

June 27, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...(North American Premiere) "A Hysterical Girl" D: Kate Novack. Sigmund Freud published only one major case history of a..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Is "progress" an unconscious compulsion?

"...and radium, and coined the phrase "radioactivity." In 1899, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, a book that..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 18-24

"...a lifelong quest to cultivate a knack described by Sigmund Freud: "In the small matters, trust the mind. In..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...$237,500 bribe money to secure the safe passage of Sigmund Freud, who was Jewish, out of Nazi-occupied Austria...."

Oct. 21, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...When he was 20 years old, in 1876, Sigmund Freud wrote his first article but failed to get..."

July 23, 2021 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 16-22

"...21): "Unexpressed emotions will never die," declared trailblazing psychologist Sigmund Freud. "They are buried alive and they will come..."

April 16, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...even a former Nazi scientist hiding himself as a Sigmund Freud-esque shrink, every overblown cliche is displayed. It's bold,..."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Think Interstellarly; Costume Locally

"...in, vying to get the perfect beard for their Sigmund Freud get­up, or the just-­so chapeau for their Pharrell..."

May 15, 2015 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Review: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Apple chief as both genius and grotesque in Alex Gibney doc

"...Was Jobs a marketing guru/pusher addicting us to machines Sigmund Freud termed the “prosthetic god,” or has he left..."

March 18, 2015 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

AFF Honors Chris Carter, Announces First Wave

Outstanding TV Writing Award for 'X-Files' creator

"...Writers and critics, actors and scholars, including Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, and many others have struggled to..."

Aug. 28, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'The NFL Beat': Maslow's Hierarchy

True NFL team needs

"...New York Jets: QB Mark Sanchez suffers from what Sigmund Freud described as temporary reversion of reality principle to..."

July 20, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...in reach, favoring Police Gazette and any book by Sigmund Freud. She possessed an exhaustive knowledge of geography and..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Who's That Girl?

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius

"...roam in the realms of all my favorite psychologists: Sigmund Freud's polymorphous perversity, Carl Jung's collective unconscious, Marie-Louise von..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

'Underground'

Exploring of what goes on beneath the surface – of our bodies, of society, of the cities in which we live, of the very planet itself

"...the caverns in an Eastern state, a photograph of Sigmund Freud (who did so much spelunking of the human..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Deadwood: The Complete Series

In this Very Deadwood Christmas, stop only to drink eggnog every time a character says "cocksucker" or gets stabbed in the chest

"...three-dimensional and contradictory universe, who isn't afraid to reference Sigmund Freud or W.H. Auden or Henry James or the..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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