ocused on our "animal like" desires, such as food,
             comfort, sex, and self pleasure. (McMahon 393) He focused on the fact that we often try
             to put these in our unconscious. We learn to repress these thoughts in our unconscious
             beginning in childhood. (McMahon 393) Freud also used hypnosis in his counseling.
             Patients were subdued in order to discover the latent content, or hidden meaning, of their
             dreams (Fancher 378). Freud's opinion was that our problems stemmed from a hidden
             sexual or aggressive urge, which society forbade. In his theory, we hid our inner most
             fears and desires in our unconscious to avoid the plague of society's standards. If a
             thought or feeling was not generally accepted, we simply rid our mind of it.
             When Freud began using Psychoanalysis to help disturbed patients, he found that
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