When the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon first met in the 1950s, Freud was little known beyond a small circle of supporters while Bacon was a rising star in Britain's art world. Their fraught ...

This quote comes as a sharp, thought-provoking reminder that challenges self-diagnosis, urging reflection on toxic ...

In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of Leonardo ...

Please be advised that I am in possession of previously undiscovered secret documents that offer a new perspective on the life of Sigmund Freud. I enclose some samples for your perusal: Originally, ...

Little known fact: four of Sigmund Freud’s five younger sisters died in the Nazi gas chambers, and he could have saved them. But he didn’t. Of course, he didn’t know what he wasn’t saving them from.

This quote serves as a timeless reminder by Sigmund Freud that real growth comes from self-reflection, not competition, urging us to measure progress by how far we’ve evolved from our past selves., ...

“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an audacious book ...

Flyda and Arvid, a psychedelic Lucian Freud self-portrait featuring his wife, Kathleen “Kitty” Garman, will go to auction at Sotheby’s London on November 17 after being held in a private collection ...

Distraught by war and personal loss, Freud publishes his views on society's dangers and delusions. Narrator: Freud saw human life drawn between two powerful and opposing forces: the life force on the ...

Even for the general observer, it is one of Lucian Freud's most tender paintings, depicting his teenage lover pregnant with his unborn child. For his daughter, Bella Freud, the portrait of Bernadine ...

The world in its current state probably needs more movies built around smart people talking to — and not past — each other. Just as essential to that need are filmmakers with a grasp of how these ...