GVPT 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
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We are unaware of how much we owe sigmund freud in our understanding of ourselves and of social science. Dark archaic memories are disturbed and awake anxieties coming from traumatic events in the past. Freud says that emotions are autonomous, that women have voices, that feelings should not be shamed, and that negative feelings and anxieties can be alleived by talking. The self is very complex; we are not simple creatures. The idea of normal could be tyrannical; we could be so obsessed with being normal that we devote our whole lives to it. What makes us feel bad inside originates in repressed psychology. One of the most efficient ways is through religion. He is arguing against religion in the way it attempts to explain human nature. Our state of nature is the id, which is our set of primal instincts.