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Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was an interesting man with many opinions and ideas, ranging from Religion, to philosophy, to medicine, all the way to science. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Maravia, but grew up in Vienna. He started out by studying medicine, then later, in 1885, traveled to Paris, where Charcot encouraged him to study hysteria from a pschological point of view. Then later, in 1895, making his first publishing, Uber Hysterie. Freud was the man who came up with all these theories about why we dream, and what they mean. He believes that what we dream about is what we, without knowing it, desire. After many years of work and study, Freud died in 1938. But he will always be remembered because …show more content…

This is only one of many of Freuds theories, but his theories on dreams seemed to be the most popular, even to this day.Freud thinks that the agent that distorts our dreams is what you would call a "censor." A censor stands before our dreams and says: "Thou shall not pass." Just like all through the nineteenth century , the Eastern European Jew tried to get admission to bourgeois Western civil society. During Freuds time he experienced the journey of seeking social acceptance and rejection. Which, for Freud that was very difficult to deal with. His internal censor definately represented bourgeois-Christian nineteenth century culture. There were standards to live by, and components of the common culture, as part of the personality structure. Internal censor, according to Freud is "the censor which allows nothing to pass without excersizng its rights and making such modification as it sees fit in the thought which is seeking admission to consciousness." It is the greatness of Jewish "passing" and its cognate, which is the "Jewish joke," that stand behind Freuds discovery of "internalization." It seems as though Freud started his study of the unconscious by examining the psychopathology of everyday life. Freud was always fascinated by just about any phenomenon, espacially of "unsuitable affect," its expression, suppression, and repression, and ofcourse the most important of all, how it

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