Carl Gustave Jung was Sigmund Freud’s student who built on his work and theories regarding the id, the ego, and the superego and continued his movement. But he introduced some new concepts that were not entirely accepted by Freud. […]
Sigmund Freud developed a theory that was inspired by the concept of hypnosis. He contended that the human brain has a repository of past memories. He postulated that the human mind has three parts, and these three parts are related. […]
For a long time, mental problems were associated with damages to certain parts of the brain. But intriguing observations by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud led to the birth of talk therapy. Now mental problems were seen as the results of things other than brain damage. […]
The study of the human mind had been a challenge for scientists. The complex nature of the human mind and its association with the brain made it challenging. But this study went through different phases to account for the mental problems with which human beings struggled. […]
Genetic science and its applications have opened a plethora of doors for scientists, but also challenged people’s understanding of existence. Find out how. […]
Find out about the developments that took place in the world of genetics after it was discovered that the gene was the seat of heredity. […]
Read about how the chromosome theory was formulated, and how it led to the discovery of the gene. […]
We take the free will for granted. We believe that each of our decisions was unique choices made by us. But what is the actual nature of free will? Is it different from what we know it to be? Does it even exist? […]
Objects have physical properties, whereas ideas do not. Yet, if one were to believe the theory of dualism, these two fundamentally different entities interact with each other. How is that possible? […]
Are human beings made up of just matter and energy, just a collection of atoms? Is there any non-material entity that needs to be added to the equation to get to a more complete picture of reality? […]
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