Sigmund Freud · articles that mention them
American writer and professor Joseph Campbell developed the theory of the monomyth, showing that the world’s major mythologies share a common structure, and profoundly influenced modern cinema and thinking about the meaning of life.
The book by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains why the human mind, although often accurate, is overconfident in its judgments and systematically falls prey to cognitive biases.
Historian Andrew Scull argues psychiatry has made only limited progress: its symptom-based diagnostic system is under strain, drug treatments are partial and often harmful, and public policy has largely abandoned people with serious mental illness.
The Marginalian revisits Carl Jung’s chapter on creativity: art cannot be explained rationally but emerges from the unconscious, both personal and collective, and the artist becomes its instrument.
In a rare 1959 BBC interview, 84-year-old Carl Jung discusses why personality is not static, why human beings are the greatest danger, and the need for meaning in the face of modern life's alienation.
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