Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" takes up many troubling issues. Connie, the main charcter, who is fifteen exhibits the confusing, often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood. She is...

Then, we have organic disease versus the symptom complex of neurosis with no physical determinants, but rather we must look for the underlying conflicts ascertained by "talking through" psychotherapy. How do you apply this to a collectivity like a nation? Is there a national character in whic...

How convincing do you find Freud's description of the Oedipus' stage of development? The idea of infantile sexuality has always been central to Freud and very early he has started to work on a basic theory for the Oedipus complex: the desire for the parent of the other sex and...