Authors

Profiles of analysts, theorists, and influential writers in psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers in the modern history of the mind. His work reorganized discussions of memory, sexuality, dreams, symptoms,

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein was one of the most important psychoanalysts of the twentieth century and a decisive figure in the development of object relations theory. Her work transformed the understanding of

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst whose rereading of Freud reshaped psychoanalysis in the twentieth century. His work connected psychoanalysis to linguistics, philosophy, structuralism, and questions of subjectivity, desire, and