Neurosis is caused by continually repressing thoughts and feelings. By not being able to fulfill your sexual drives and killing drives, you push them down into the unconscious. These basic drives want to be fulfilled by the id and can cause neurosis if they aren't. Freud goes on to say that everybody is neurotic to some degree, because we all hold some repressed thoughts and feelings, including the desires of the Oedipus complex and the desire to kill; nobody is completely normal. Freud also says that the only way to cure repression is through psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis will take the repressed memory from the unconscious and move it to the conscious mind.

Psychoanalysis is, according to Freud, a rational method of finding out the contents of the unconscious and explaining what purpose it serves. Freud says that a skilled therapist can bring the repressed thought up into consciousness, allow all the neurotic emotions to be properly released, and through this process bring the behavior to a level of awareness that allows it to be controlled. Psychoanalysis can help remove the repressed thoughts and is the only thing that can cure neurosis. One method Freud used during psychoanalysis was the use of free association. By letting the neurotic person to just talk, his mind would eventually take its natural course and you will make a realization. This helps bring the repressed thought into the conscious by making you aware of it, naturally.

The main motivator in the human psyche is sex. It is manifested in early childhood through several stages that everybody goes through. Your infantile sexuality, from birth to age six, is the most important time for the superego. You act as a sponge, absorbing everything around you, although, you still don't rationalize. Your id is the biggest part of infantile sexuality. Sex is the driving force. Freud names four stages to infantile sexuality. First, from birth to eighteen months you go through the oral stage, in which you derive sexual pleasure from breast-feeding. Freud makes the statement that you always have the want of sexual pleasure from birth on. The second stage, from eighteen months to thirty-six months, is the anal phase. From this stage you derive sexual pleasure from controlling when you do and don't go to the bathroom. You get pleasure from the contractions of the anus. Thirdly, from thirty-six months to around six years in age, you go through the phallic stage, or penis stage. In this stage you masturbate and have sexual fantasies, mostly about your mother. Finally, after six years to puberty, you go through a period of sexual latency. Freud goes on to say that your stages never disappear; they overlap one another. You can be stuck in a certain stage that could cause neurosis or abnormal behavior.

o Freud, dreams are wish fulfillments. Dreams show the unconscious mind and how much activity you have. They can tell more about somebody than anything else. Dreaming is a way for the unconscious mind to vent out the repressed memories that have added up over time. They are states of mind created by the fact that we feel certain powerful

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