Wednesday, February 6, 2013
2nd Body Paragraph
Much like the experience Marlow has in Africa, an ego free zone, the human experience and condition for that matter through one's id are the building blocks for what Freud sees as our most natural ways of being. According to Freud "Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love", a statement that encapsulates the very nature of the human id which leads us to our animalistic origins as Freud would argue. Through the Freudian perspective much like the one of Marlow towards the natives and eventually the Europeans when in the Congo, humans are all malicious beings that are conceived through vile and perverse means, or so society tells us. By listening to the social norms of what one should and should not do we become susceptible to what society fabricates within us, the super ego. This level of our subconscious tells us what is morally right and wrong. Freud argues that due to the restraints society places on us through rules and regulations our true animalistic ways are suppressed and bottled up within us. Although repressed, this beastly subconscious deep down inside us all projects itself in many ways. Freud states that one can see one's deepest and most suppressed desires through dreams in which our most secret wishes no matter how vile or immoral are projected by are id. Following with the Freudian belief of an initial human corruption since conception, Freud states that children as oblivious clean slates untouched by society's grasp display how we truly act through sexual acts and desires. Infantile sexuality further proves that even in our most "innocent" stages of life we are still creatures of malicious and sexual abilities whose true desires are molded and distorted into what society views as a moral citizen.
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