Everything’s a Sign

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Vienna Boy Problems
3. Chapter Two - Cocaine and Nerves
4. Chapter Three - The Talking Cure
5. Chapter Four - Interpretation of Dreams
6. Chapter Five - Libido World Order
7. Chapter Six - Oral Fixations and Anal Retentiveness
8. Chapter Seven - Oedipus Wrecked
9. Chapter Eight - The Ego and Its Frenemies
10. Chapter Nine - Therapy as Rebellion
11. Chapter Ten - Jung, Adler, and the Breakups
12. Chapter Twelve - Thanatos: Death Joins the Party
13. Chapter Thirteen - Exile and Cancer
14. Chapter Fourteen - Freud’s Ghost
15. Chapter Fifteen - What Freud Unlocked

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THERE’S A MAN beneath your bed. Not a literal one, although Freud would’ve asked you about that. No, it’s more like this: somewhere deep in your mind, there’s a voice you can’t quite hear, a memory you didn’t mean to keep, a desire you’d rather not admit. And every time you dream about falling, or missing a test, or kissing someone you shouldn’t, that man stirs. That man is Sigmund Freud. He’s not a monster. He’s not a magician. But he is the one who told you the monsters were inside you, and that magic is just trauma in disguise. Before Freud, the mind was… polite. It was reason, logic, manners, and madness. The soul was a moral thing. The brain was a physical thing. And the...