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Freud’s View on Human Nature and Pleasure

Freud strongly believed all of our actions are driven by our sexual desired. Maybe is a survival instinct that has been hidden each time deeper within ourselves thanks to the process of evolution. Human behaviour is not possible to be seen in a direct way, we are too complex, our brain covers so much thinking in a daily basis that we blend this sexual desires with humble actions, like opening the door for a women. Freud suggests that much of our human behaviour is controlled by forces beyond our controlled, the subconscious. So in other words, our actions are determined by “primitive urges buried deep within our unconscious”. This “urges” can grow and faint by the pass of time, they never go away, but we learned to controlled them and cohabit with them. Humans as all other living organisms priorities reproduction in order to maintain their survival. Making it logical that reproduction is a constant subject in our mind. Today sex is sometimes seen as a sin a bad habit which is why, we turn our view to indirect object related, such as babies etc. All of our actions lead us to fulfil this urge or desire buried deep inside us. Well at least this is what Sigmund Freud believed.

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Freud's Greatest Contribution

Without a doubt Sigmund Freud was an odd thinker, his bizarre mind lead him to discover the importance of psychology as an essential study to understand human behaviour. Freud is considered among Marx and Darwin as one of the most influential thinkers during the 20th Century who altered men perception of himself. During his studies Freud came to the conclusion that all our actions are driven down by our sexual desire (probably inspired by Darwin's “survival of the fittest”), kicking our instinct, who is controled by our unconscious.  You as many other might  disagree with some of Freud’s point of view ( lucky for yourself you are not part of his society, if you disagree with him there he kicked you out) but his way of thinking make us realize our body can have more than physical wounds which need healing.  His greatest contribution of all was his concept of the unconscious. This concept states that our actions as our thinking are all controlled by our unconsciousness. Meaning that, our consciousness is just a small part of what is inside our head. Most of our thoughts are on our subconscious and more likely than we like to admit they are able to come to  out, expressing themselves as  random ideas and unintended actions.

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Freud on Dreams

Freud had a theory that dreams are a representation of the unconscious part of the human mind, there all the things we do not know are present show, taking other forms. Freud believed that all of human´s actions and thoughts were sexual, therefore, he said everything had to do with sexuality. In the dream, if you dreamt of something circular, jewellery or flowers, you were dreaming of the vagina. If you were dreaming of sky scrapers, pencils, open sky, trees, etc, you were actually dreaming of the penis and testicles. If you were dreaming of Sex, you would present actions that resemble sexual behavior or desire. If you dreamt of a part being separated from the whole, for example, a tooth falling off or a building breaking in half or the mutilation of an arm or leg, you were dreaming of fear of castration. Everything that happens on dreams tends to be part of the unconscious mind, which serves as a cauldron for primitive ideas and wishes every human being has. Sometimes people suppress facts and events of their life, and these might show up or be represented in some form when the patient is dreaming. 

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Freud on Cocaine

Sigmund Freud started to use cocaine when he was 28, right after a dear friend of his died. He just wanted to do good and was a nervous young man. Freud tried to treat his fellow psychologist, Ernst Von Fleischl Marxow, who was a morphine addict, and instead Freud introduced cocaine to treat him, but ended in a disastrous result, dead at 45.Afterwards, Freud started to consume it non- stop to numb physical pain, as well as to calm his mental anxiety. Freud was fascinated by cocaine, he was somehow connected to a Surgeon called Halsted, who was too, a man who admired and used the drug to experiment on patients as a pain killer and anesthesias. One of Freud´s colleagues almost killed a young woman  ( Emma Eckstein )giving her cocaine as treatment, and later Freud had a dream where his colleague blamed the accident on him. Freud later said that the dream´s meaning was simply that he cared a lot about his patient. Freud was an addict to cocaine, and his mind started to tell what the mind tells all addicts, that the drug is not dangerous or bad at all. He was all positive about the drug, until he had the dream and stopped consuming it.