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Kevin Galasinao
Mr. Yammine
HZT 4U1
June 2013
Sigmund Freud
Introduction
In aesthetics,the philosophy of what is reality; it contains many different kinds of philosophers. Each
philosopher has their own beliefs. These beliefs are quite truthful; today, we follow them. A very
important philosopher is Sigmund Freud. Four of his important beliefs are the interpretation of dreams,
his sexual theories, society, and seeking an adult identity. I will state which theories I agree with and
which ones I don’t. But before I did, I will give explain the background of Freud so you can know a lot
about him.
On May 6 1856, Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born. When he became a young man, he abbreviated
his name to Sigmund Freud. He was born in Freiberg, Moravia, which was then part of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire. 1860, his 40 year old father, Jakob Freud, had business problems so he and his family
moved to Vienna, Austria, where Freud lived for most of his life. When Freud was born he was still partly
enclosed in a foetal membrane (commonly called a ‘caul’), an occurrence which in folklore, is held to be
an unusual and lucky portent. His mother, Amalie, took this to be a sign of future fame. He ended up
becoming famous.
Freud was the first of Amalie’s eight children and he was her firm favourite, ‘my golden Sigi’. He
later said that this gave him a feeling of invincibility and a great will to succeed. He also attributed his
success to the fact that he was Jewish. Although, his family were of Jewish descent, they did not practice
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Young Freud was an enthusiastic student at school and his family was very ambitious for him. He
soon mastered Greek, Latin, German, Hebrew,French, and English, and by the age was reading
Shakespeare. As if all this wasn’t enough, he also taught himself the rudiments of Spanish and Italian. He
went into a secondary school a year early and his education there emphasized classical literature and
philosophy, which greatly influenced his later thinking and writing. His favourite authors were two of the
greatest literary figures of Western Europe – writer and philosopher Goethe, and poet and playwright
Shakespeare.
In 1873, Freud wrote to a friend that he has decided not to go into law, but to become a natural
scientist. Since he was of Jewish descent, he encountered anti-Semitism there. He graduated with
distinction from the Gymnasium. Now,he ended up studying at the University of Vienna; zoology with
Carl Claus (a follower of Darwin): physiology with Ernst Brucke; and Aristotelian philosophy with Franz
Brentano. Once Freud was finished with university, he became a doctor of medicine and moved to
Bergasse 19.
Freud ended up marrying Martha Bernays in 1886. Their first child, Mathilde, was born the following
year. Eventually, they had more children: Jean Martin (1889), Oliver (1891), Ernst (1892), Sophie (1893)
and finally Anna (1895), who later became a psychoanalyst. The family often struggled financially, and in
1918 Freud lost a lot of money that had been bound up in Austrian State bonds. Martha was utterly
devoted to Sigmund’s happiness and well-being, and she insisted that in the 53 years of their marriage not
one angry word was spoken between them. Also, the couple ended up giving up sex. This is because they
feared having more children. However, it does seem that Freud’s home life may have been tranquil, and
that he was the head of the family which no doubt gave him a stable and secure basis for working in
peace.
Right from the beginning, Freud encountered opposition from the medical establishment because his
ideas were strange and disrupted the status quo. Undeterred by this, Freud continued his interest in
neuropathology, and he managed to write and publish his first book, On Alphasia, in 1891.
At first, Freud’s work concentrated on looking at the causes and treatment of neurosis. Gradually, he
expanded his theories and he became interested on how the human psyche develops. For the next ve years
from 1895 to 1900, he developed many theories that are the basis of psychoanalytic theory and practice.
He coined the word ‘psychoanalysis’ in 1896.
When Freud was 41, his father died. He ended up having a mid-life crisis but rather than sinking into
depression, Freud set to work on his own psychoanalysis. This led to a lot of introspective work,
examining his own dreams and fantasies, and led to his famous and important book, The Interpretation of
Dreams.
Freud’s work falls into four different phases. From 1886 to 1896, he studied on the causes and
treatments of neurosis, working with neurosis patients. At first he developed other forms of therapy, based
on the free association method, which evolved into psychoanalysis.
From 1897 to 1900, Freud worked very much alone, doing a lot of self-analysis and developing ideas
about sexual neurosis. This was the period where he developed ideas about psychoanalysis.

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From 1900 to 1914, Freud began to develop new theories about the origin of neurosis, which led to
how the psyche develops from birth onwards. The psychology that he developed was called id
psychology.
From 1914 and forward, World War I led Freud to look at people’s behaviour in new ways,he
realized that aggression, as well as sexual urges, could be an important factor in behaviour. He began to
develop theories and the ways in which people relate to each other. This is known as ego psychology.
In 1938, the Germans occupied Austria, and Vienna became a very dangerous place for Jews. Freud
was spared the horrors of the Holocaust because he and his family moved to England. He died in London
on September 23, 1939.
1. The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud’s probable greatest contribution to modern thinking is his theory of the unconscious. He
suggested that consciousness actually existed in layers and that there were many psychic processes that
went on below the surface,in the world of the unconscious. Dreams were the most immediate and
accessible examples of this kind of unconscious thinking – not only did they prove that the unconscious
exists; they also provided a means of accessing the information stored there. Freud’s book, The
Interpretation o Dreams, really marks the beginning pf psychoanalysis, in that it proposes the existence of
a dynamic unconscious that begins to form in childhood and affects the behaviour of all of us.
Dreams were once known, before Freud, to arouse from outside the dreamer. Sometimes as a
message from the gods. Or they were known as meaningless images that were caused by indigestion.
There was also a great deal of literature concerning dreams but he pulled a whole variety of ideas
together. He created the first proper theory of dreams and made them into respectable topic for scientific
study. Freud has always been interested in dreams and emphasized their importance in psychoanalysis. In
fact,he regarded as so important that he said if anyone asked him how to become a psychoanalyst he
would tell them to study their own dreams.
According to Freud, a dream is not simply an expression of a wish but its fulfillment. He announced
that dreams were almost driven by the need to fulfill a repressed wish. A dream directly expresses a wish.
For example, Freud describes a young mother’s dream. She was cut off from society while she nursed a
child through an infectious illness. In her dream, she ended up meeting severalauthors who she had
fascinating conversations with. She had wanted to meet and talk with these authors; she ended up doing it
her dream.
Freud saw dreaming largely as a form of regression to childhood and the instinctional forces and
images that dominate this time of our lives. As we grow up, we learn that our desires cannot be fulfilled.
You can’t become a celebrity, you can’t fly, you can’t get superpowers, and you can’t encounter mythical
creatures. The inhibitions that are imposed on us by parents and caretakers gradually become internalized
and so the forbidden wishes become unconscious. Freud called this process ‘censorship’, and he thought
that dreams were mostly disguised manifestations of infantile sexual urges that had been regressed.
Because these urges were unacceptable they were suppressed and so the dream – like the neurotic
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Freud believed that dreams were neurotic symptoms. The fact that everyone has dreams made it clear
to him that psychoanalysis was relevant to all of us, not only those suffering from psychiatric illness.
Dreams,he said, allow the impossible to happen, and set aside the inhibitions of waking life. During
sleep, forbidden wishes rise from the unconscious, where they are normally kept under control during
waking hours. As they attempt to come into the conscious mind, the dream censor in the brain monitors
them. It decides they have disturbing content so they must be suppressed for fear that they disturb the
sleeper. This means that dreams are created in order to express the hidden wishes in disguised form so the
person can go on sleep. Freud saw dreams as guardians. He remarked that they expose our hidden urges to
the extent that anyone who behaved the same way when awake as they did in their dreams would be seen
as insane.
Freud went further to state that dreams had a manifest and latent content. The manifest content is the
part that is consciously remembered; the latent part is the disguised part that is not remembered. Freud
explained that the technique used to uncover the latent content of the dream is exactly the same as the
method used in free association. You then use the free-association with each separate element of the
dream. From this material you then arrive at the latent content of the dream. Analysis of the latent content
will show that the dream meaning can be traced back to childhood. The latent content of the dream is the
true meaning.
I believe what Freud had to say about the interpretation of dreaming. I believed with what he had to
say about dreams being wish fulfillments, and having a latent content and a manifest content. I will use
my dream as an example. When I was younger, I had this nightmare. It took place in my elementary
school. See,the students and my staff had to remain in this school because outside, there was a werewolf
outside. But despite the danger we faced,these kids and I decided to escape from the school. We burst
forth running and running from our school. Outside, it was dark and creepy.
Unfortunately, our running proved pointless because the werewolf came towards us. This was no
normal looking werewolf. This werewolf resembled a mascot.
We all ran back to the school, afraid, running for our lives. I was the last one running. This was bad
because the werewolf was right behind me. The werewolf even managed to touch my back.
Fortunately, I and all those other students managed to get inside the school. We were safe. I recalled
getting a bin with my food inside. Then all of a sudden, we heard the werewolf howling. This struck fear
into our hearts for we believed that the werewolf was coming in.
The wish fulfillment in my nightmare is my desire to leave the school. I guess deep down, I had no
intention to remain in that school. The fact that I left running away from it shows that I had obtained my
freedom. That’s a wish fulfillment; freedom.
But of course,a child I was at the time, almost powerless against my school and my parents, forced
me to stay at the school. The werewolf who led me back, like how a sheepdog leads sheep to a fence,
symbolizes that I am bound to stay in that school.
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Then there’s the fact that the werewolf touched me. That symbolizes that I am close to danger.
Perhaps at that time, I must feel down that I was in trouble. Of what, I don’t know.
There is also the fact that I was last in line at running. This shows that deep down, I feel slow, I feel
as if I’m not fast enough. I feelas if I would be the first one to face danger.
But luckily, I managed to be escape the big bad wolf. My escape is a wish fulfillment. It symbolizes
that I can escape from danger.
Know at the school, I felt safe and I had this bin of food. During elementary school, my mother used
to make my lunch for me. Since she was Filipino, she referred to lunch as bahoon. The fact that I had this
symbolizes that I bring her made lunches to my school.
Then there was the fact that I felt safe. I had gotten away from this werewolf, I was inside away from
it. But then we heard the werewolf howl. This howl shattered the peace that I felt it. The werewolf
probably was going to come in. The howling shows that whatever peace I may be able to achieve, it isn’t
permanent because in time, I will face danger.
2. Sexual Theories
Theories about sexuality and sexual development became important in psychoanalysis from an early
stage. Freud published his book Three Essays on The Theory of Sexuality in 1905.Alongside his earlier
book, The Interpretation of Dreams, this was to be one of his most important works because it outlines
the foundation for his theory of neurosis, explaining why people need to repress things and what
unconscious, instinctive drives affect their behaviour. The three essays in the book cover three main areas
of his thinking about sexuality; sexual deviations or aberrations, infantile sexuality, and developments
that occur at puberty.
From his work with neurotic patients, Freud came to the conclusion that tendencies to all kinds of
sexual deviation existed unconsciously in many people and led to the formation of neurotic symptoms. In
fact,he went so far as to suggest that initial tendencies to ‘perversion’ are universal in the sense that the
sexual urges of the infant are not aimed at a specific object.
The inhibitions that gradually lead the child towards ‘normal’ sexual behaviour arise as a result of
reactions from other people (such as shock or disgust) when the child displays unacceptable sexual
behaviour. The moral structure of society is important because when this process goes wrong or gets
stuck in some way, then sexual deviations become apparent. Freud defines various types of sexual
deviation which he divides into two groups:
-Deviations in respect of the sexual object – the sexual object is the person or thing from which the sexual
attraction comes.
-Deviations in respect of the sexual aim; the sexual aim is the sexual act that a person is driven towards.
Inversion
Inversion is the word Freud uses for homosexuality: the world implies an in-turning of the libido onto
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thinking goes back from childhood when the child does not recognize sex differences and is very close to
the mother, who supplies all its needs regardless of its sex. Freud saw all sexual deviations in this way –
as examples of an incomplete maturity of sexual object or aim.
Oral and Anal Sex
Oral and anal sex were definitely considered as pervious by Freud. He said that a feeling of disgust
prevents most people from indulging in either perversion. Freud says that in early childhood sexual
excitation arises as a kind of by-product of normal processes that occur in the body. There are various
erotogenic zones in the body: areas where certain actions like rubbing produces pleasure. Examples are
the mouth, the anus, and the genetalia, each of which exert their own influence on the child as it goes
through a series of maturational changes. As this early change, the sexual instinct is not focused on a
specific external object but is auto-erotic, i.e. the child is turned on the parts itself. As sucking is one of
the first things from which the infant gets satisfaction, oral sex obviously relates back to a very early
stage. Similarly, anal sex is linked back to a child’s first awaremess of the pleasure to be gained from
emptying the bowels.
Fetishism
Fetishism occurs when the normal sexual object becomes replaced by an object that bears some
relation to it. The fetish object is usually something normally considered to be non-sexual, for example a
different part of the body such the hair or the feet. Sometimes this train of thought is fairly easy to track –
for example, fur may relate to public hair, and so on - but it is not always that straight forward.
Sex with children or animals
Freud definitively frowned upon people who had sex with children, saying that they were too
cowardly or impotent to find a more appropriate object. Also, his attitude towards humans have sexual
intercourse with animals was similar. He says that this kind of behaviour throws light on the sexual
instinct, which permits huge variation and lack of discrimination in its objects: in fact,at times it seems
almost any old thing to do.
Touching and Looking
Tactile and visual stimulation between sexualpartners only constituted a perversion to Freud if:
-they were restricted only to the genitals
-they were involved with the overcoming of disgust, for example in voyeurism, or in people who enjoy
watching excretory functions
-they totally supplanted the normal sexual aim, instead of just leading up to it.
The opposite of voyeurism is exhibitionism, which is the urge to display the sexual organs and hopefully
to see the other person’s too – ‘show me yours and I’ll show you mine’.
What I Think

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So according to Freud, we go through different sexual stages. They are the oral stage, the anal stage,
the phallic stage, and the genital stage. If a human being manages to go through each stage successfully,
they end up normal and healthy. Though, people may end up stuck in a stage,this process of being stuck
is called fixation. When one is stuck, they have neurotic symptoms; they become mentally ill.
I believe in this. But I guess it really doesn’t matter. The way I see it, we human beings are all
different; we each go through different things in our lives. I once heard that life is suffering. So then well,
life can’t be perfect. So basically, our lives aren’t perfect. Human beings aren’t perfect.
Now, Freud that homosexuality occurs because our libido, our sex drive, is projected unto yourself.
So it explains why you are attracted to people of your own sex. Now, I don’t agree with this at all.
Homosexuals are attracted to members of their own sex because they were born that way. It is natural to
be homosexual. Homosexuality is normal.
Freud stated that fetishism is something other people experience because they associate it with a
human’s sexual private part. I’m not really so sure about this. I mean, why would they like a certain
object because it resembles a human’s body part? Wouldn’t they just like the body part? Plus, it is
possible that they are just attracted to the strange body part whether it be feet or a banana or hair. People
tend to be attractive to such parts because they just look attractive and because of what they could do with
them.
I agree with what Freud had to say about sex with children and animals. It is just wrong. Children are
young and innocent; they should not be forced to have sex with older people. People who do this are sick
and cruel. They do this to feelpowerful and because they can; if they have the power to do something
wrong, they tend to do it. But I have heard that there are pedophiles who are just born as pedophiles, like
homosexuals. This is quite tragic. They cannot help the way they feel, they are conditioned by society not
to like children, and they can’t be with children, they can’t be attracted to people who of their own age.
Regarding sex with animals, again this is wrong. I mean it’s not like animals can consent, they don’t
have the knowledge to want to be in a relationship with animals. So it’s just wrong when humans try to do
sexual acts on animals or if they make animals do sexual acts to them. Sex between animals and humans
is wrong; it’s not natural. Animals were meant to have sex with animals, humans were meant to have sex
with humans.
Freud is right about touching and looking. It is perversion, if stimulation between sexualpartners is
focused on the genitals. It’s disgusting really. I see human sex as the expression of love between two
people; it is also a way to create human life. To just focus on genitals like the penius, the vagina, the anus,
to view them as sexually erotic, is just disturbing. There is more to a person than their genitals. Obsession
over the genitals reducing the sexual partner to a commodity, a commodity to be used.
In our unfettered capitalist society, there is porn. Porn is no longer scorned upon as it once was,it is
no longer viewed as disgusting. Instead, it is accepted and embraced in mainstream society, people openly
admit to masturbating to it, it’s influence has infected other forms of media such as television shows and
music videos, and reality; look at the Abu Grahib scandal. Those abused hooded prisoners resembles
people participating in gonzo porn. Gonzo porn is a type of porn where severalsexual partners are
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Porn wasn’t originally so sick. It was usually just between a man and a woman; it involved the man
ejaculating into the woman. But in time, porn evolved. It became sicker, racist, and abusive to women.
Look at the various types of pornography today; besides gonzo porn, there is bestiality (sex between
animals and humans), there’s Brazilian fart porn, there’s porn involving excrement (e.g. Two Girls and
One Cup), and there’s child porn. Despite our sick porn truly is, people tend to watch it! They feel
aroused by it, they masturbate to it.
In porn, there are usually stories that lead up to the sex. These stories are usually lacking depth. Like a
lonely attractive woman that wants sex with the mail man. Though, porn can be based on movies. (E.g.
Forrest Hump). Or it can involve famous people like Sarah Palin and Jesus Christ. But, they are played by
actors who act like those people. The movies involving these famous figures led to two porn movies,
Nailin Paylin, and Jesus Got Nailed.
But, it is much cheaper for directors to just produce sex with without a story line. It is much cheaper
to produce porn that just involves sex. E.g. gonzo porn. So this kind of porn is usually made.
Now porn has an impact upon the people who watch it. It leads people to make amateur porn where
two people can have sex; the video can be seen on the internet on sites like Youporn. People allow
themselves to be seeing engaging in the act of coitus because they want popularity and they want
gratification over how good looking they are and the fact that they are having sex.
It also leads to people having friends with benefits. Friends with benefits are your friends, yet you can
have sexual intercourse with them. Benefits are the coitus. Though, you are not in a relationship with
them; you are just friends. People end up having friends with benefits because they like having sex.
Though, having a friend with a benefit can have a disadvantage because people tend to be emotionally
attached to the other person; they end up falling in love with the other person.
Finally, it leads to people having uncommitted sex with others. People don’t have sex with others
because they love them. No, it’s because they just what pleasure out of having sex. Once people have
uncommitted sex, they have nothing more to do with each other. This can have tragic consequences.
There was this girl over the internet who stated that she had this boyfriend whom she loved. She ended up
losing her virginity to him. They had sex more times. But eventually, the girl realized that he didn’t love
her at all. He was just using her for sex. They ended up breaking up.
3. Society
Eventually, Freud became interested in extending his psychoanalytical theories beyond individual
psychology to exploring group psychology in all kinds of different areas such as anthropology, sociology,
art, literature, war and religion. Following experiences working with traumatized soldiers after WWI,
Freud moved on to explore the ways in which society works and the effects that it has upon the
individual. Freud saw civilization as representing the ways in which human life has raised itself above its
primitive animal origins, but he took the view that civilization oppressed people because it imposed all
kinds of rules that demanded the suppression of libidinal urges. The purpose of human life is the pursuit
of happiness, dominated by the pleasure principle. By happiness, Freud means satisfaction of libidinous
needs but these are often dammed up. The ego has to find ways of controlling libidinal urges, sublimating
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group behaviour. The need to conform in order to remain within a social group demands great sacrifices
from the individual and eventually leads to a great deal of unhappiness and the formation of neurotic
symptoms.
Freud sees beauty, order, and cleanliness as being the features of civilized living. Justice is the first
requirement in maintaining these – the law must not be broken in favour of the individual. The two main
reasons for living together in societies are:
-the need to get together in order to share the workload:
-the probable security within relationships, e.g. man and woman, mother and child.
In order to gain these advantages people must curb sexual and aggressive urges are turned inwards
towards the self, causing a sense of guilt and a need for punishment. This is the essence of the Oedipal
complex, whereby the infantile instinctual urge to possesses the mother sexually is repressed for fear of
action by external authority.
The conflicting needs of society versus the individual lead to a constant battle between ego and
altruism. The essence of this battle is – ‘do I answer my own needs, or do I try to fit in with other people?
Curiously however,Freud seems to abandon his usual stance that sexual urges are the all – important
driving force when he speaks about the conflict between the individual and society.
What I Think
Freud is right about people rising above their animal origins. But because we humans are animals, we
still continue to act like animals. Look at the examples of our attraction the trivial, the absurd, and
celebrity culture. We commit crimes like murder and rape. We start wars on others. We cheat, steal, and
lie.
Now Freud is right about civilization oppressing the people because of its kinds of rules. He is right
about conforming in order to be a part of a society. In our unfettered capitalist system, there are different
kinds of groups. The people of these groups are conformists because they conformed; they are like
everybody else.
People tend to say to ‘be yourself’ but they themselves are all the same. There is a certain way they
must act in order for them to attract people.
There are people who have not conformed. They are non-conformists. These our rebels, our outcasts,
our individuals. They are our black sheep. The crowd can be hostile to the individuals because they fear
differences and can become envious of the gifts of the individuals.
In societies, we tend to not nurture our individuals. We get them to conform, to be like everyone else.
These individuals end up trying to resist the hostility of the crowd and the peer pressure to conform.
There are individuals who end up conforming thus being the same,dull. But luckily, there are also those
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I hope to remain an individual. It is my intention to become a published writer. Yet,we live in a
society where we are forced to go to school and have jobs. You need school to learn, to be able to earn a
diploma in order to gain a diploma. You need that diploma in order to gain a proper and popular job; a job
where you will be able to earn a large amount of money.
I want to be a writer because I have these ideas that I have created. I need to let these ideas out in the
form of literature whether it is in the form of a novel or a graphic novel or a manga. I want my literature
to entertain and educate the masses.
Now people say that if you want to be a writer, you need to be outgoing. You need to get involved in
after school activities and get part time jobs. This is believed because the experiences you gain from
participating influences your writing. I don’t believe this because of what I heard from this published
writer on YouTube. He stated that there are two kinds of writer, those who go out and those who stay in.
I’m a writer who stays in; I’m an introvert. A person who is predominantly concerned with myself. I have
also learned from the writer Stephen King that if you want to be a writer, you have read literature and
write literature. I do each.
I am always reading different kinds of literature; novels, sonnets, poetry, graphic novels, etc. I love to
reading. It educates and entertains me, it makes my literature better because I am influenced by it, it
makes you more intelligent, it can make one creative, and it helps me deal with boredom. Also, reading
allows me to speak in my own voice so I end up becoming an individual; I don’t speak like everyone else,
I don’t speak the slang people speak of like YOLO or swag.
I also write literature. In the beginning, I worked on just long stories; novels and graphic novels. I even
managed to finish a graphic novel script, volume 1, where the main character looks up at the stars. I
listened to Don Mclean’s song, Starry Starry Night.
But then I learned from the late great Ray Bradbury, the writer of literature like Fahrenheit 451, that
you shouldn’t work on novels because they take too long to write. He also stated that you should try to
write 52 short stories a week. I ended up believing in what Freud had to stay. He’s right; writing a novel
or a graphic novel would be too long. If I keep working on long stories; if I am just determined to be
done, if I am stressed writing it, my story may end up getting rejected by a publisher. I would have wrote
that story for nothing.
Writing a short story is easy. I tend to just write a page of a short story, or more if I want to. I don’t
need to be too attached to the story, I don’t need to be stressed over whether the story writes is good or
bad; I can just move to the next story. The more I continue to write, the more my writing gets better.
I don’t need to be outgoing in order to be a writer. It can certainly help. But I don’t need to. If I do, I
won’t have the time to write; I’ll have to work. Plus, when I do go out, I tend not to feelcreative.
As long as I continue to read and write literature, and take a break every now and then, I will remain
a writer. Also, it is my intention to keep on writing short stories. I am young so I don’t need to focus on
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It is also my intention to write a fictional novel where Sigmund Freud is one of the main characters.
One reason why I chose to write about Freud is so that I can gain information about him so I can work on
the novel. One day, I will begin writing on the novel. For now, I just need to research more.
4. Seeking an Adult Identity
Freud gradually developed theories about the ways in which the personality is formed and structured.
For a long time, he knew that unacceptable or frightening ideas were repressed and banished to the
unconscious. But he didn’t know where this repression came from. The original simple division of the
mind into conscious and unconscious did not fully explain what was going on, so in 1923 Freud published
his book The Ego and the Id, which proposed a new dynamic model, a simplified description, of the
mind. This was an attempt to describe the whole mind system, explaining how it works, and what are its
main motives and drives. It involved three main parts: the id, ego, and the superego. It should be
mentioned that these were not actually Freud’s original words. He used words that can be translated as
‘the It’, ‘the I’ and ‘Over I’, which were perhaps rather more self-explanatory.
From the Latin word for ‘it’, the id is a dark, inaccessible area,seething with instinctive urges and its
only reality is its own selfish needs. It is the source of the motive force behind the pleasure principle
which involves avoiding states of tension or ‘unpleasure’, caused by the thwarting of a basic drive.
Named from the Latin word for ‘I’, the ego is the part of the mind that reacts to external reality and
which a person thinks of as the ‘self’. The ego is where consciousness comes from, although not all of its
functions are carried out consciously.
The super ego is the eternal task master. It gives our sense of right and wrong, pride and guilt. It often
gets us to act in ways that are acceptable to society, not to the individual. If a person does not do what the
super ego considers right, it will impose guilt upon the person. For example, it might make a person feel
guilty for having extra-martial sex. The super-ego incorporates the teachings of the past and of tradition,
imparting a sense of morals.
What I Think
I believe Freud’s idea of a whole mind system involving three main parts which are the id, the ego and
the superego. I believe in the id because it causes me to desire what I want, and makes me avoid what I
find wrong. Some of the things that the id makes me desire is to skip school, take a nap (it’s not wise for
myself to take,despite what a pleasure it can be, because I end up getting sleep paralysis), and junk food.
The things that the id makes me avoid are television (Television is evil in my opinion), going to church
(I’m not Catholic anymore; I’m agnostic), and watching movies, people, and social situations.
I believe in the ego because it makes me react to reality, it makes me think of myself as me, and this is
where my consciousness. In our world, there are many illusions. The masses of people believe in the
illusions put forth. Who puts the forth the illusions? Corporations, governments, and institutions. Some of
these illusions are the illusion of literacy, the illusion of wisdom, the illusion of love, the illusion of and
nation-states. I must thank the journalist Chris Hedges for making me aware of these illusions. The
illusion of literacy is that we live in a society where people are attracted to electronic hallucinations.
Some of these electronic hallucinations are our movies, our TVs, our iPhones or Blackberries. We are
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absurd, it can celebrity culture. When we want to be informed; the news is tends to be infotainment (Hulk
Hogan’s sex tape) or propaganda (North Korea being a major threat to the U.S.). Our addiction to screens
has led the masses to become illiterate or semi-literate. Most people don’t read literature anymore. Books
are seen as elitist and inaccessible to the wider culture. We need literature whether it is novels, poetry, or
even graphic novels (comic books) because not only can they entertain us but they can educate us as well.
Look at Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In the novel, Captain Ahab goes on a pointless mission to kill his
archenemy, the white whale. This mission ends up bringing the ship and everyone down. Our world and
the people are being brought down. The world is dying to due to human made climate change; the people
have become distracted child-like consumers. We human beings are too distracted to focus our attention
on helping the planet, saving the people. What we need to do is overthrow the corporate elite, end
corporate rule through a mass mainstream protests; one that is based on Occupy Wall Street. Rebellion, to
be in a state of perpetual rebellion from power, is our only hope left.
Finally, I believe in Freud’s idea of the superego because of the guilt I feel when I encounter a
decision that I know is wrong. In life, one must face wrong decisions. I, Kevin Leal Galasinao, encounter
sorts of decisions. Some of them are returning or renewing my library books, remaining an individual, or
writing a story. If I do not do any of the problems, I feel the superego impose guilt on me; it makes me
feel bad for not doing the right action or not doing anything. I shall provide examples on what the super
ego does. If I don’t return or renew my books, the superego tells me that I should return or renew it, it
tells me that I will face repercussions from the Albion library, it tells me that I will have to pay it all back,
it tells me that I may get in trouble with my parents. So, I listen to my superego. Because I do, I end up
doing the right thing.
Conclusion
Four of Sigmund Freud’s important beliefs are the interpretation of dreams, his sexual theories,
society, and seeking an adult identity. He had other important belief. Truly, Sigmund Freud is an
important philosopher of aesthetics. It is said that had he lived longer, he would have come up with more
important ideas.

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Works Cited
Snowden, Ruth. Freud: The Key Ideas. Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.
Lear,Jonathan. Freud. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print.
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. New York:Modern Library, 1950. Print.