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Painting by Hitler May Have Hung in Freud's Office

Jane Yager — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:04:43 CST

Back in 1910, when Sigmund Freud was decorating the walls of his Vienna offices, he may have bought a painting from a struggling young artist who was then peddling his work in Vienna: Adolf Hitler. The discovery of a tiny Hitler watercolor marked on the back with the name of...

Rush Has a Butt Fixation

Kevin Spak — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:00:41 CDT

Lots of detractors say Rush Limbaugh talks out of his ass, but they’re missing something crucial, writes Gabriel Winant for Salon: He talks about his ass, too. And everyone else’s. Constantly. Limbaugh apparently has what Freud would call an anal fixation—specifically a fixation on anal rape. He’s complained that...

Freud Is Everywhere but in Psych Dept

Jane Yager — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:59:00 CST

Sigmund Freud's ideas have seeped into every corner of popular culture and academia, from film to foreign policy. The one place they've seeped out of is university psychology departments, where psychoanalysis is now viewed as obsolete, the New York Times reports. A new survey of 150 top colleges and universities...

Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

Sophie Goldstein — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:10:00 CST

Walter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world." The Theory of Relativity...