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As we all disperse towards our favored holiday partying and wintering places, our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays asks that you keep your eyes open for gratuitous instances of the most familiar form in modern architecture: the phallus.
As Freud tells us constantly, every human activity that isn’t sex is the direct result of displaced sexual impulses, [...]

It’s another issue of our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, wherein we take a close look at the Interweb’s unconscious desires and telling trends. This week we look at a list by Dayna Davis on Divine Caroline, entitled 8 Dream Symbols That Point to Stress.
Of course, any good Freudian knows this list’s alternate (and more truthful) [...]

In this first installment of our weekly psychoanalysticle series Freudian Fridays, we take a look at one of Western civilization’s most powerful myths and Sigmund Freud’s favorite bedtime story: Oedipus Rex.
For the unfamiliar, those who didn’t see it reenacted by Julianne Moore earlier this year in Savage Grace, and anybody else really, please refresh your [...]