Freud Comic

Freud’s Life and Legacy, in a Comic

by Maria Popova

“You have to listen carefully. The unconscious mind is crafty.”

While Freud may have engineered his own myth and many of his theories may have been disputed in the decades since his heyday, he remains one of the most influential figures in the history of psychiatry and psychology. And yet for many, Freud is more metaphor than man and his name summons only a vague idea of his work — “something to do with penises,” our marginally informed collective conscience might whisper — rather than a true understanding of just how profoundly he influenced contemporary culture, from ourmechanisms of consumerism to our notions about the self./.../