REPRESSION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Relationship between Repression and the unconscious

Repression and the unconscious

Introduction

It is not necessary to engage in psychoanalyzing Sigmund Freud in order to understand the social, cultural and historical context in which he did his work, or the ways in which this social background may have influenced him. The Sigmund Freud's own personality affected the origins and developments of psychoanalysis are a truism. However, the consequences of this truism for assessing the intellectual merits of what Freud wrote are irrelevant. Freud's biography is no more, and no less important to understanding the development and the contribution he made to social thought than the biography of any other social scientist is to assessing their contributions(Dimberg 2000, 86- 89).

At the end of the nineteenth century, there is a breakthrough in research on the evolving field of psychological science. Sigmund Freud formulated his revolutionary theory, which was a task to explain pathological behaviors in patients. On this basis, Freud developed a form of psychotherapy treatment for emotional disturbances, which is called Freudian psychoanalysis. At the core of psychoanalysis lay desire to know the psychic structure of man, the desire to explore the development and functioning of his personality, as well as cultural and social phenomena are the product of his mind and having an influence on it. Freud came out with the assumption that the ancestral human development is essential for individual development and its consequent constant problem of choosing between impulses and behavior, which is imposed by culture.

Psychoanalysis was to contribute to a better knowledge and understanding of human behavior, how strange sometimes. Freud believed that human behavior guided by the sexual instincts that dominate the behavior in the first few years of life. It's the parents and the public learn how to control them. However, he further looked into the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness is the conflict and censorship, and their sources should be sought in the early stages of the development of infantile sexuality in spite of the fact that the development and shaping of the individual as a social being is also influenced by social mores (Frijda 2001, 326-343).

Discussion

Freud observed in his patients an infinite number of emotional conflicts and compromises. He saw that one desire opposed to another, the social taboos prevent the expression of biological meaning, and ways to cope with these often contradict each other. Only later in his work, he ordered for himself this seeming chaos, proposing three main structural components of the mental organization: id (Id), ego (Ego) and superego (Superego). They are now common English term, but are artificial abstract concepts and create the impression that is different from that which Freud had in mind. The task of the ego is self-preservation. Ego is the conscious 'I', which arises from the need to adapt to reality, by partial satisfaction and partial inhibition of primitive instincts. Ego processes in striving to preserve life. However, it is said that Freud sense of reality as something separate from me is something that ...