The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, is best known for his neuro-theories around sexuality and the unconscious mind (he coined the term ‘ego’!). Way back in the early 1900s, Freud identified a psychological dichotomy in his male patients known as the ‘Madonna-Whore complex’. Men (back then, but relevant to all genders now) with this complex saw women as either saints or prostitutes, loving the first and desiring the second — though never intertwining both. As Freud s
