SciShow
The Science of Dreaming
Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...
Crash Course
Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream. Karl Popper observed...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne
Working in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, he began his career as a neurologist before pioneering the discipline of psychoanalysis, and his influence towers above that of all other psychologists in the public eye. But was Sigmund...
SciShow
The Strange (But True) History of Hysteria
Doctors once believed that the uterus would just start wandering around your body, leading to "hysteria." Spoiler Alert: That's not a thing! Isn't it great to be alive... now?
Mister Simplify
Human Defense Mechanisms by Anna Freud - Simplest Explanation Ever
Why do people get defensive time and again? What do we actually direct towards when we refer to defensiveness? Where do defense mechanisms come from? These and some more questions will be explained as we look at the contributions of...
Professor Dave Explains
Continental Philosophy Part 2: The Frankfurt School
Pivoting back to continental philosophy, we must discuss a very important movement in this tradition, and that is the Frankfurt School. This group utilized the ideas of Marx and Freud to advance the field, led by figures like Max...
Oxford Comma
Why Literature Students Read Freud While Psychology Students Don't
While many of his theories have been debunked and disproven, Freud continues to have a massive influence on literary criticism. How did a man who was never fully focused on literature forever alter the way we discuss it? And what are we...
Oxford Comma
America Teaches "The Cask of Amontillado" Wrong
Is Poe's short story of revenge based a real events? According to some American textbooks? Yes. But the truth is more complicated. Sources: Cody, David. “‘What a Tricke Wee’Le Serve Him’: A Possible Source for Poe’s ‘The Cask of...
Professor Dave Explains
Clinical Psychology Part 1: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
It's time to dive into clinical psychology! To discuss this topic we must first discuss Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. The whole lying down on a couch and talking to a therapist thing? That's Freud's. But he also had some...
Professor Dave Explains
The Psychology of Humor: Why Are Things Funny?
Everyone laughs to laugh! But why? What is the evolutionary purpose of laughter? How does laughter work on the mechanistic level? Why do we find things funny? There is a lot to discuss here from the standpoint of psychology, so let's dig...
Curated Video
Tevye the Dairyman Episode 6 - ASSAULT: MATERIALISM
When Sholem Aleichem published the sixth of his Tevye stories, Jews in Eastern Europe were in dire straits. Violence against Jews was escalating, and pogroms led to a large, fleeing refugee population. During this time—1906-1907—Jewish...
Curated Video
Unlocking the Mysteries of Dreams
This video explores the fascinating world of dreams, discussing their nature, purpose, and the various theories surrounding them. Explore the vivid experiences during the rapid eye movement stage of sleep and the role dreams play in...
Curated Video
The Mystery of Dreams
This video explores different theories about the purpose and origin of dreams, including those proposed by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and more recent research by Alan Hobson and Robert McCarley. The video also touches on why we often...
Professor Dave Explains
A Brief History of Psychology: From Plato to Pavlov
Before we dive into all the particulars of modern psychology and its research methods, we need to get a little context. When was psychology first developed, and by whom? Was it scientific at that time, or more philosophical? Who was the...
Curated Video
Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory': Great Art Explained
Salvador Dali's exploration of the depths of the subconscious mind in his paintings and his powerful images tapped into the fantasies, dreams, fears and hallucinations of entire generations, and he should be remembered as a consummate...
Curated Video
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained
A group of artists, architects, musicians and social scientists, were experimenting in ways that would transform their individual fields. On the one hand, Vienna was the traditional city of academic art, Johann Strauss, and the Hapsburg...
Neuro Transmissions
What is Psychoanalysis?
A lot of Sigmund Freud's ideas have been debunked over the years (Oedipus Complex, penis envy, psychosexual stages of development...to name a few). But Freud's greatest invention, psychoanalysis, has lived on. Granted, today it is not...
Curated Video
Freuds 5 Stufen der Psychosexuellen Entwicklung
Freuds Theorie der psychosexuellen Entwicklung besagt, dass wir im Laufe unseres Erwachsenwerdens fünf kritische Phasen durchlaufen. Unser Sexualtrieb, den Freud die Libido nannte, konzentriert sich in jeder Phase in einer anderen...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...
Neuro Transmissions
The Birth of Psychology
Believe it or not, psychology is actually a new discipline. Itês only around 100 years old. So where did it come from? And what happened before then? Join Micah in the FIRST episode of Micah Psych to discover the underpinnings of modern...
Curated Video
Art Attack - contemporary London fair embraces performance art.
It's art but not as many know it.
Here at Frieze London contemporary art fair, visitors are watching these two performers recreate an old performance work by German artist Franz Erhard Walther.
He's been a pioneer of action-based...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : El arte que prohibieron en Mexico
VOICED : El arte que prohibieron en Mexico
Curated Video
The Paris jet-set celebrate the launch of "The Millennium Book" at Versailles
1. Pan ext Versaille Palace
2 C/A photographers
3. VS of young women carrying "the Millennium Book"
4. VS arr. author Vani Paris
5. SOT Vani Paris (English)- "Thank you very much for coming, I'm very happy. Tonight for me is a dream come...