Sigmund Freud
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Vincent MacNamara surpassed theology’s closed circuit
- Opinion
- February 13, 2018, 05:00
“One of the attractions of psychotherapy for people is that it provides a space where they feel listened to and accepted. They are allowed to tell the(...)

Smoke break: James Fox cigar boss retires after 46 years
- People
- November 9, 2017, 17:00
When David McGrane retires today as managing director of James Fox cigars on Grafton Street, it will bring a close to the “summer job” which he applie(...)

No laughing matter: why are we so terrified of clowns?
- Film
- September 9, 2017
Otto the Clown, aka Edward Fossett Junior, is a fifth generation performer at Fossett’s Circus. At the height of last year’s clown-related hysteria – (...)

No washing our hands of the Austro-Hungarian legacy
- Health & Family
- August 29, 2017, 06:00
In our decade of commemorations, we might easily miss two interesting sesquicentennials of 2017, commemorating 150 years of the Canadian Confederation(...)

Work Like Any Other review: Plenty of work, not much play
- Books
- December 24, 2016, 05:00
If work and love are the basis for happiness, as Sigmund Freud believed, then Roscoe T Martin’s discontent with life is understandable. The protagonis(...)

Lucian Freud: important retrospective comes to Imma
- Art & Design
- October 26, 2016, 00:00
Thanks to the Freud Project, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) is the place to go to if you want to see a first-rate, representative collection of(...)

Meet the man who will redesign the US ambassador’s house
- Interiors
- September 17, 2016, 00:00
Brian Burns, Donald Trump’s choice as the next US ambassador to Ireland, has asked US interior designer Carleton Varney to revamp Deerfield, the(...)

The Living and the Dead TV review: beautifully shot, utterly chilling
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 28, 2016, 22:00
A visit to the eye-opening Underwear exhibition at the V&A in London earlier this month, which shows underwear down through the centuries, gave me(...)
![“This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever” – Freud never said it. Never wrote it. Almost certainly didn’t even think it “This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever” – Freud never said it. Never wrote it. Almost certainly didn’t even think it](/polopoly_fs/1.2698376.1466777700!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Peter Crawley on . . . indifference to facts
- People
- June 25, 2016, 04:00
Who said the following: “This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”? The last time I came across this in(...)

Enter the Shamrock: Hong Kong hosts Film Ireland showcase
- Generation Emigration
- April 18, 2016, 15:00
Hong Kong is the city that gifted us the violent visual poetry of John Woo and his black-suited face-offs, the balletic martial arts thrills of Bruce (...)