When I was young, the story went roughly as follows: the Sandman was a figure who would sprinkle sand in your eyes – either to help you sleep, or while you slept. The idea was to provide an ...

Above Freud's bulbous, oriental carpet-draped couch in 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, hangs a shrivelled, double-headed bronze penis by Louise Bourgeois. In an essay on "Freud's Toys" (1990), as ...

The idea that the melancholic is full of rage and that mourning should be an active and verbal process, come from “Mourning and Melancholia,” where Freud gave the work of mourning a name: Trauerarbeit ...

Five Essays about the 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. Part 4 of 5. Recorded in front of an audience at St. Georges, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Brahms Experience - a week-long ...