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Freud And Marx - College Term Papers

Freud And Marx

Hey! I got an A- on this paper, so I guess it's pretty good! I put my own
personal spin to it in that not only did I compare 's viewpoints,
I stated that perhaps what they saw in society was just a reflection of their
own biases and personal inner feelings.

Freud and Marx it can be argued were both, as individuals, dissatisfied
with their societies. Marx more plainly than Freud, but Freud can also be seen
as discontent in certain aspects such as his cynical view of human nature. Each
were great thinkers and philosophers, but both seemed unhappy. Perhaps the
social ills and trouble each perceived in the world about them were only the
reflections of what each of the thinkers held within ...

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he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions
and Id that Freud saw, Marx simply credited man's greed and the subsequent
oppression of other men as the root to all that was wrong with civilization. It
is interesting to note that both Freud and Marx saw conflict but each traced it
back to sources each was respectively educated in.

Freud was a Psychoanalyst and his understanding of the mind was very
conflict oriented. He saw man as a kind of glorified animal who had the same
desires and needs as any other animal. The only true difference between the
human-animal and other animals was that the human-animal possessed an intellect.
Freud divided man's psyche into three parts, the Id, Ego, and SuperEgo. What
differed the human-animal from any other animal was the SuperEgo, which arose
from man's intellect. The Super-Ego as Freud theorised it is the values of one's
parents internalised. He went further to then explain that unhappiness in life
is caused by the ...

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Added: 2/2/2006 12:42:32 AM
Category: Biographies
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