Sigmund Freud
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Can experimental theatre be sentimental?
- Stage
- July 10, 2019, 10:47
Two months ago, Dublin Youth Theatre (DYT) did something that many of its members find increasingly difficult to imagine themselves. It left home. Lo(...)

José Salas Subirat, the eccentric first translator of Joyce’s Ulysses into Spanish
- Books
- July 10, 2019, 05:27
Although both James Joyce and his editor Sylvia Beach included Spain from the first moment in their international promotion strategy for Ulysses, and (...)

Ditch the self-blame over unrealistic demands
- Retail & Services
- March 29, 2019, 05:30
Despite ostensibly recognising the unrealistic demands of the workplace, employees feel guilty and blame themselves for failing to fulfil them. Why? L(...)

In a word ... laughter
- Culture
- February 23, 2019, 05:00
Stan Laurel died 54 years ago today, on February 23rd, 1965; he of the incomparable duo, Laurel and Hardy. You may have recently seen the utterly char(...)

Is this a good time to pile your money into a Persian carpet?
- Fine Art & Antiques
- January 19, 2019, 00:00
In 2013, a collective sigh from the attendees of a Sotheby’s auction in New York echoed throughout the room. A 17th-century Kerman carpet achieved $33(...)

When the guns fell silent: cartoons and Armistice Day
- Culture
- November 10, 2018, 06:00
“From here, you get a breathtaking view of what will happen in the 20th century. The Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia. But also t(...)

How to silence the harsh self-critic in your own head
- Health & Family
- September 20, 2018, 17:01
“I can take care of other people but when it comes to myself it’s a different story.” Anybody working in mental health will have heard that statement(...)

Hoor You To Talk? – An Irishman’s Diary about unparliamentary language
- Opinion
- May 25, 2018, 00:01
The recent national outbreak of people saying “bollocks”, in the Leinster House canteen and elsewhere, has prompted some readers to recall another fam(...)

Positive well-being: Work to your strengths and find your flow
- Health & Family
- March 18, 2018, 16:01
“Love and work . . . work and love, that’s all there is.” – Sigmund Freud The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, saw his job as helping his pa(...)

I’ve spent the last few years with a dead man. But the end of my PhD is near
- People
- March 11, 2018, 06:00
I have spent every day for the last several months with a dead man, and that is just the days without a break. In fact, I have spent almost every day (...)