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Explore the Unconscious with Freud

Don’t just study a summary: ask Freud what a slip of the tongue might reveal, why dreams disguise their meaning, or what Charcot taught him at the Salpêtrière. Psychology told by those who shaped it — grounded in their own writings.

Dreams & the unconsciousSelf-worthAnxietyMemory
Sigmund Freud
Reader“What does a slip of the tongue say about us?”
S. Freud“Often, what we meant to keep quiet. But I distrust quick explanations — tell me yours.”
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6 founding texts · public-domain works
The psychology library

Start with a founding text

Six works, all in the public domain. Read them in the app, chapter by chapter, and talk them over with the people who wrote them.

Everyday Life
EVERYDAY LIFE · 1901

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud

A forgotten name, a lost key, one word for another: the unconscious at work every day.

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Three Essays
SEXUALITY · 1905

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud

Children have a sexuality, and that is what shocked most. The book that scandalised more than it convinced.

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Gradiva
LITERATURE · 1907

Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva

Sigmund Freud

Freud reads a novella the way he reads a dream: Pompeii, an archaeologist, a young woman walking.

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Briefer Course
CONSCIOUSNESS · 1892

Psychology: Briefer Course

William James

Habit, attention, the stream of consciousness — the whole of psychology in one clear volume.

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Principles
FOUNDATIONS · 1890

The Principles of Psychology

William James

Twelve years of work to found a science of the mind. The classic it all started from.

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Folk Psychology
PEOPLES · 1912

Elements of Folk Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt

Language, myth, custom: what the mind owes to the peoples who carry it.

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The great voices of psychology

Personalities, not variations on Freud

Freud answers today; Adler, Horney, Coué, Janet and Breuer are on their way. Each is a historical AI simulation built from their own writings — for learning and reflection, not for treatment.

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“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud
1856–1939

Dreams, the unconscious, childhood: the founder of psychoanalysis, in his own words.

“What does a recurring dream mean?”

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INFERIORITYSoon
“The meaning of life is to contribute to the lives of others.”
Alfred Adler
1870–1937

Physician, founder of individual psychology and Freud's famous alternative: inferiority, ambition, belonging, life goals.

“Why do I always need to prove my worth?”

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ANXIETYSoon
“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
Karen Horney
1885–1952

One of the century's great psychoanalysts: anxiety, relationships, self-image and the “idealized self”.

“Why do I seek other people's approval so much?”

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AUTOSUGGESTIONSoon
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
Émile Coué
1857–1926

The Nancy pharmacist and his method of autosuggestion: what the sentences we repeat do to confidence and habits.

“Can the sentences I repeat to myself really change me?”

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MEMORYSoon
“Memory is an action.”
Pierre Janet
1859–1947

The great French clinician of the Salpêtrière: memory, trauma, dissociation, psychological automatism.

“Why do some experiences seem cut off from my memory?”

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THE TALKING CURESoon
“Speaking relieves the mind.”
Josef Breuer
1842–1925

Anna O.'s physician and Freud's mentor, at the origins of the “talking cure”.

“Why can talking about what hurts bring relief?”

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EVERYDAYLIFE
Sigmund Freud
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life · ● online
Why are dreams so strange?
You · 21:04
SF
“Because they are in disguise.”

A wish that cannot show itself as it is gets past the censor in another costume: it condenses, it shifts. The strangeness is not an absence of meaning — it is the price of getting through.
Sigmund Freud · 21:04
What is a slip of the tongue, really?What did Charcot teach you?Why the couch?
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Read a chapter, then talk it over

The same reading companion that follows you everywhere — now through the founding texts of psychology.

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2Come back and talk about what you just read
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life · Chapter XII

“There are two differences between me and the superstitious person: first, he projects the motive to the outside, while I look for it in myself; second, he explains the accident by an event which I trace to a thought.”

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Why this way?

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In the first person

The theory from the person who thought it

Psychoanalysis stops being a textbook chapter the moment Freud answers you himself.

Original sources

The texts, not the clichés

Freud, James, Wundt — their books, not what people make them say.

Rival schools

A science that argues with itself

Freud's unconscious, Adler's inferiority, Horney's anxiety: compare them on the same question.

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Finally get into Freud

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is less daunting when you can raise your hand at every chapter.

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Interactive conversations

Write, call, or watch him answer — as if in his consulting room at Berggasse 19.

General culture

Understand the words we use

Slip of the tongue, repression, wish-fulfilment, the Oedipus complex: where the words everyone uses come from.

THE UNCONSCIOUS

Everyone talks about the unconscious. Ask Freud.

The unconscious is easier to grasp at the source: in Freud's own texts, and face to face with the man who wrote them.

✓Read the pages of Freud everyone quotes
✓Ask him what exactly he means by repression
✓Ask William James about consciousness too
Explore the unconscious
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freud
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Freud
Delusion and Dreams
Freud
The Principles of Psychology
William James
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Frequently asked questions

Who can I talk to?

Sigmund Freud today, along with William James and Wilhelm Wundt. Adler, Horney, Coué, Janet and Breuer follow.

Where do the answers come from?

From the original texts: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The Principles of Psychology, Elements of Folk Psychology. Beyond his books, the figure says so rather than inventing.

Is this therapy?

No. These are historical AI simulations, built from each figure's writings, for learning and reflection. They make no diagnosis and do not replace a professional: if you are going through a difficult time, please talk to a doctor or a psychologist.

Do I need any background to start?

No. Ask Freud what a slip of the tongue is, then open the book when you feel like it.

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