There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ~Albert Einstein We often hear a lot about the great strength of the human intuition, but rarely are…
When people think about psychology and psychotherapy, especially those unfamiliar with the fields, most tend to think about Sigmund Freud and his theories on psychosexual development. Oedipus and Electra complexes are among Freud’s most controversial theories. According to these ideas, boys go through a phallic stage when they have an…
The Unconscious It was Breuer, the mentor of Feud, who first discovered that people cannot always put their thoughts and feelings into words, as if sometimes, they don't know why they think and feel the way they do. With some help from Breuer, patients were able to put into words…
Deja vu is not an illusion, it is something that you have already experienced in your unconscious fantasies. Believe if you will, or do not believe it. The link between the subconscious, deja vu and dreams was already mentioned a hundred years ago by the infamous Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud,…
It has happened to everyone. That illusory sense of familiarity that arises when we are in a new situation. I'm talking about deja vu, of course. What is the science behind deja vu and its causes? James Lampinen, professor of psychology from the University of Arkansas, explains that déjà vu is…
There is a branch of science called oneirology which studies dreams. This discipline combines features of neuroscience, psychology, and even literature but does not provide the answer to the important question of why people dream. There is no clear answer to this puzzle yet, but there are some interesting hypotheses,…
Perhaps all of us pondered on how to interpret our dreams. This question was also a subject of a study by Sigmund Freud. The basic idea of this theory is that a dream is closely connected to the ideas and desires which occupied our mind before a dream has occurred. According…
The mystery of dreams and dreaming was always one of the most intriguing ones. What are dreams? What is this strange world that exists alongside our own, inside and outside of it, occurring at the same time? Is this a world, which is the same as the one of awareness,…
