Sigmund Freud News
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At a time when department stores are chopping themselves into mini-malls -- J.C. Penney Co. being the most prominent example -- Barneys is doing the opposite.
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“The smell of opium,” said Pablo Picasso to fellow smoker Jean Cocteau, “is the most intelligent of all odors.”
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Count Dracula, the aristocratic bloodsucker, is not the only nocturnal visitor who likes to disturb the sleep of innocents.
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Lucian Freud, the British painter of regular people in all their fleshy glory who stayed loyal to portraiture and realism even when modern art veered toward the abstract, has died. He was 88.
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Around the time readers first learned of Sherlock Holmes’s turning to cocaine after a tough case, two of the medical world’s great minds were getting a serious buzz on for research, fun and abuse.
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Bank security guards in London lock the doors when they see Liam Taylor coming.
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Naked men are much more interesting than naked women. That might sound subjective and it is, partly. Yet I have some good arguments to back it up.
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Sigmund Freud and his fiancee Martha Bernays exchanged more than 1,500 letters during their secret, four-year engagement. They fought, reconciled, described dreams, shared hopes and even compared cocaine experiences by post.
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People with a history of depression respond differently than others to feeling guilty, brain scans show, a finding that may begin to explain how the emotions are processed by the brain.
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America has three indigenous art forms: jazz, baseball, and outrageously effective marketing stunts. The self-proclaimed father of public relations, Edward Bernays, was Austrian by birth (he was Sigmund Freud's nephew), but his genius blossomed in New York City in 1929 when he made smoking fashionable for women by marching models down Fifth Avenue waving their "torches of liberty."
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