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Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel">The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel

Steven J. Zipperstein Explores the Biographical Underpinnings of an Iconic Work of Jewish American Fiction

By Steven J. Zipperstein | October 20, 2025

What the Timelessness of Modern Malaise Reveals About the Human Condition

What the Timelessness of Modern Malaise Reveals About the Human Condition

Viktor E. Frankl on the Collective Neuroses That Characterize Our Society

By Viktor E. Frankl | August 26, 2024

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

Jennifer Finney Boylan Considers “Penis Envy” In the Context of Dysphoria

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | May 15, 2024

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

By Gabriel Brownstein | April 17, 2024

Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords

Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords

Hannah Zeavin Talks to the Author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx”

By Hannah Zeavin | April 4, 2024

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

The Madman in the White House">From Patrick Weil's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Madman in the White House

By Patrick Weil | October 9, 2023

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