Kurt Andersen and Jonathan Lear look at how Sigmund Freud and his theories still pervade our culture.

In a video game, the player ventures into the minds of dangerously insane patients at an asylum. The goal of Psychonauts is to resolve their conflicts and save the little kids whom they are threatening. Tim Schafer, the game's creator, told producer Jonathan Mitchell that his best ...

In 1925, the movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn traveled all the way to Vienna to meet Sigmund Freud. Goldwyn wanted the famous doctor to consult on movies for MGM -- to tell filmmakers what was really happening in famous love stories. Freud, however, refused even to see Goldwyn. Playwright

Sigmund Freud saw most of his patients -- famous case studies like "the Wolf Man" and Anna O -- in the study of his Vienna home. Spencer Finch, a painter, was so inspired by Freud that he spent a day in the Freud House depicting the view from the couch. ...

In the new Broadway show Bridge & Tunnel, writer-performer Sarah Jones celebrates (and impersonates) the incredible diversity of New York City’s outer boroughs. Kurt asked Jones how she embodies the hopes and dreams of a Pakistani accountant, a Jewish grandmother and many other characters.

Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein passed away this week. The author of The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig, Wasserstein spoke with Kurt Andersen last year about her plans for the future and her experience giving birth at the age of 48.