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Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Mind

The Unconscious Mind by Sigmund Freud

           Being entirely honest to oneself is a good exercise. Freud’s theory of unconscious is all about the hidden causes in the person’s mind that restricts the person’s action. This suggests the view that freedom of the will is not completely an illusion, certainly more tightly circumscribed than is commonly believed, for it follows from this that whenever we make a choice we are governed by hidden mental processes of which we are unaware and over which we have no control. Freud ideas about the unconscious mind in his time is not considered as a discovery, but treated like a thing that corrupt peoples mind.

 Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856, but when he was four years old his family moved to Vienna where he was to live and work until the last years of his life. Freud himself was very much a Freudian, unlike a normal family set-up. He was born on a second marriage where he has two older brothers Emmanuel and Philip, where Philip is of a same age of his mother. He often played with Philip’s son John, who was his own age. Freud’s self-analysis, which forms the core of his masterpiece The Interpretation of Dreams, originated in the emotional crisis which he suffered on the death of his father and the series of dreams to which this gave rise. An even more important influence on Freud however, came from the field of physics. The second fifty years of the nineteenth century saw monumental advances in contemporary physics, which were largely initiated by the formulation of the principle of the conservation of energy by Helmholz. This principle states, in effect, that the total amount of energy in any given physical system is always constant, that energy quanta can be changed but not annihilated, and that consequently when energy is moved from one part of the system, it must reappear in another part. The progressive application of this principle led to monumental discoveries in the fields of thermodynamics, electromagnetism and nuclear physics which, with their associated technologies, have so comprehensively transformed the contemporary world. Ernst Brüke, whom he worked with at the University of Vienna, also influenced his thinking. Brüke in that time published a book sighting that all organisms, including humans, are essentially energy-systems to which no less than inanimate objects, the principal of the conservation of energy applies.

Freud, who had great admiration and respect for Brücke, quickly adopted this new "dynamic physiology" with enthusiasm. From there it was but a short conceptual step, but one which Freud was the first to take, and on which his claim to fame is largely grounded to the view that there is such a thing as "psychic energy," that the human personality is also an energy-system, and that it is the function of psychology to investigate the modifications, transmissions and conversions of psychic energy within the personality which shape and determine it. This latter conception is the very cornerstone of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. As a doctor in profession his theories helped persons who has psychological problem. In Vienna, where he lived and spend most of his life, people are very sensitive when it comes to personal matters and only talks about what is important to them like work. Their gatherings are formal, that means club and night bars don’t exist, just wine and fine dining. People are very conservative. So people with psychological needs have no place to go. Many of them are sent to asylums. Their just like a prisoners in it, their rights are being abused. They are often strapped, some were drugged to sleep, and some undergoes brain surgery that results to death. They are treated as experimental subjects and not persons who need psychological assistance. Freud’s thinking started a revolutionary way to treat “hysteria” and other psychological problems. 
         One of his methods is to let his client talk about his/ her life and about everything at all so that he can determine what can really help his client. In this method the client feels more relax and has the freedom to talk about their burdens and everything that is bothering them. His theory about the unconscious mind is all about the real person inside the person itself. An ‘unconscious’ mental process or event, for Freud, is not one which merely happens to be out of consciousness at a given time, but is rather one which cannot, except through protracted psychoanalysis, be brought to the forefront of consciousness. The postulation of such unconscious mental states entails, of course, that the mind is not, and cannot be, either identified with consciousness, or an object of consciousness. To employ a much-used analogy, it is rather structurally related to an iceberg, the bulk of it lying below the surface, exerting a dynamic and determining influence upon the part which is amenable to direct inspection, the conscious mind.

In the present time, Sigmund Freud’s philosophies are still applicable. It is well used by psychologists, and counselors in helping their clients. Many people today are experiencing struggles in socializing with others because as I said earlier they have hidden problems that they are not conscious about that prevents them in doing so. Maybe doubts, childhood experiences, trauma’s, afraid of being shamed at are the factors that affect people about it. Helping them realize and overcome those things would make a great impact to them.