Freud's development of psychoanalysis did not happen in a vacuum. He drew for inspiration on a wide range of predecessors in 19th century medicine, psychology and philosophy, as well as the great dramatists, poets and novelists of the past. As he himself was the first to acknowledge, the idea of the unconscious mind, the idea…

The second distinguishing characteristic of psychoanalytic therapy, after its rooting of the symptoms of emotional distress in the history of our personal lives, is that it considers the human mind as a place of conflicts between different wishes and drives, and it treats the symptoms of emotional suffering as expressions of these underlying conflicts. Life…

On the relation between Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapy