Centre of the universe

Ego is not a dirty word - in fact, it's important that we all have it in the right amount.

Freud's dislike of Australians is linked to Ashes team

CLEMENT FREUD, the English humourist-broadcaster-politician who died a couple of months ago, seemed intent on offending Australians. Asked during a visit here which city he preferred, Sydney or Melbourne, he replied, "It's like comparing leprosy with syphilis." He also had this to say: "In England, many men take sexual pleasures with women beneath their social station. As it must be difficult to find anyone beneath the social station of an Australian, you [Australian men] could be missing out on a lot of fun."

Buff's Choice

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex *But Were Afraid To Ask

Freud Sleeper The Stuff Of Dreams

MORE than a few eyebrows were raised in 2001 when the National Gallery of Australia paid a then record $7.4 million for a work by British painter Lucian Freud, After Cezanne.

Confronting Freud

Insight without inhibitions makes evocative artwork, as a showing of this master's work reveals. JILL STOWELL writes.

Fiction - Love Falls

Love Falls Esther Freud Bloomsbury, $29.95

In Awe Of An Ambitious, Ludicrous Presence

Some regard Anselm Kiefer as more important than Warhol, more rigorous than Lucien Freud, says Peter Hill.

The Objects Of Freud's Desire

BOOK REVIEW: Gods of Freud By Janine Burke Knopf, $49.95

A Rich, Wonderful Journey Inside The Mind

The Gods Of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection Janine Burke (Knopf, $49.95)

Freud As Novelist

Treating psychoanalysis as a branch of literature produces some spectacular results. Side Effects By Adam Phillips Hamish Hamilton, 318pp, $49.95

Freudian Slipperiness

ADAM PHILLIPS TALKS TO BEN NAPARSTEK A champion of Sigmund Freud argues that the father of psychoanalysis should be seen as a writer, not a scientist.

Toilet Until 2.45pm, Then Boardroom

SIGMUND FREUD would have loved Sydney. Last week our impromptu dream clinic revealed toilets were Sydney's major dream theme. Plenty of material there for the father of psychoanalysis, who might have judged us a city of anal-retentives, given the number of dreams about being caught with our pants down.

Forget Freud, Fiction Is The Key

A lacerating honesty and dark beauty pervade this account of a life lived in self-doubt, writes STEVE DOW. My Lives By Edmund White Bloomsbury, 356pp, $29.95

The Path Between The Gods And Science

An extraordinary tapestry of ideas is woven from the history of intellectual thought, writes HUGH DILLON. Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud By Peter Watson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 822pp, $69.95

A Disappointing Stage In Freud's Life

THEATRE REVIEW: BERGGASSE 19, The Apartments of Sigmund Freud, devised, written and designed by Brian Lipson, directed by Susie Dee, Grant Street Theatre, until October 23. Running time: 110 minutes

Whimsy That Defies The Usual Analysis

MELBOURNE ARTS FESTIVAL REVIEW: BERGGASSE 19 - The Apartments of Sigmund Freud Grant St Theatre, Southbank To October 23

At Home With Sigmund Freud

A new play explores the fascinating home life of Freud, writes Robin Usher.

Freud Goes Walkabout

BOOK REVIEW: FREUD IN THE ANTIPODES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AUSTRALIA, By Joy Damousi, UNSW Press, $49.95

Freud's Supermodel Brings A Super Price At Auction

British supermodel Kate Moss was keeping her head down on Wednesday in light of her rock-star boyfriend Pete Doherty's latest public experiment with hard drugs and prison.

Entrepreneurs: Risk Takers Or Reckless Company Wreckers? Analysis According To Freud

Corporate delinquents have returned to vandalise the business landscape, suggesting we haven't grown up from the '80s era of greed. Leon Gettler reports.