Frued as a Prism
Social Recognition of the Human Individual"From the time of puberty onward the human individual must devote himself to the great task of freeing himself from his parents."-Sigmund Freud (General Intro. to Psychoanalysis) As a child develops from infancy to adulthood, it soaks up its environment and processes it like a biological computer. As it matures, so does the way it copes with the challenges life presents to him. If the child has the opportunity to be well educated, than he may learn from his history studies, and begin to recognize the different patterns of thought that society has gone through. Perhaps he will learn from these patterns and make an effort to use his knowledge to prevent making many of the same mistakes in his daily life that men have made before. If he studies medieval Europe, he may become skeptical of his own faith. Resulting in his search for a new religion that he can believe in, rather than continue to blindly participate as a member of the faith his parents had chosen for him. If he were to study Imperialism in Europe, than perhaps he would join an athletic team. He would form strong bonds with those within the team, but hopefully he could learn from Europe's mistaken extreme nationali
It is the interactions that take place between a developing individual (the boy) and the society in which that individual lives in which we find the essence of human existence. It was Napoleon who took the fruits of the revolution and planted them in the minds of people across Europe as he conquered eastward. If a man is seriously troubled or confused then he goes to his psychoanalyst for answers which proves that contemporary society not only utilizes Freudian ideologies, but after each session with his doctor that individual will take what he has learned and apply it to the world around himself. Freudian ideologies are slowly woven into the social fabric more and more as man expands his understanding of himself. If one considers Freud's findings as a cause, than the synthesis Fromm published in his books is the resulting effect. Psychoanalysis was the first proven scientific method that could be utilized by scientists for factual and accurate experimentation and documentation in probing the human unconscious, conscious and perception of reality. This allowed prevent the emerging urban class to be exploited by the upper-middle class factory owners. To understand a society better one may psychoanalyze the arts of that culture, such as paintings, literature and performance arts. If a historian understands the socio-economic conditions of an individual, than he can reason what insecurities and desires that the man possesses. Thus we come to the development of equality. Contemporary actors study the psychological make up of their characters. They would be fulfilling deeply hidden desires from their childhood to escape reality somehow, in order to be someone else because they did not want to individuate, or separate themselves from their characters. Once again it is the perfectly complimenting ideologies of Freud and Marx that Fromm uses harmoniously to explain the history of human development, from which present society learns. Imperialism slowly became the dominant socio-economic policy of many European nations; it is a political concept that was formed by the convergence of colonialism, classical liberalism and the technology of the second Industrial Revolution. Freud truly was a prism as his entire career was devoted to taking a solid ray of white light, representing the social fabric, and splitting it up into a diverse array of colors.
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