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This 3 page paper examines Freud’s thinking about dreams, repression and sexuality in connection with the famous case study of “Dora.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and other Freudian works to discuss the implications of repression, self-knowledge, and whether or not we should try to eliminate social coercion, which Freud deemed analogous to repression. Discussion In
Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud discussed human sexuality and the various prohibitions against any type of sexual activity except that deemed "suitable" by society; he noted that the choice of
a sexual partner was reserved for members of the opposite sex, and that "most extra-genital satisfactions are forbidden as perversions" (Freud, 1989, p. 60). This leads to repression: "The requirement
... that there shall be a single kind of sexual life for everyone, disregards the dissimilarities ... in the sexual constitution of human beings ... and so becomes the source
of serious injustice" (Freud, 1989, p. 60). Marc Fonda explicates Freuds work The Future of an Illusion and says that Freud observes two characteristics of civilization: one, that "it
has developed with the knowledge and capacity necessary to control and extract the wealth of the world and society to the satisfaction of human needs"; and second, that it has
developed all the regulations necessary "to adjust the relationship of people to one another" (Fonda, 1996). This last characteristic is particularly important in regard to wealth. These findings imply that
human begins are "not independent of each other" (Fonda, 1996). However, there are several things that influence relationships among people, including the satisfaction they derive from wealth; the fact that
they function economically in relation to one another; and the fact that they act as sexual objects for one another (Fonda, 1996). According to Freud, each individual "is considered to
be an enemy of civilization," and civilization must thus "defend itself against the individual" through the use of various institutions and regulations (Fonda, 1996). Because of the idea that
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