Return Of the Repressed.

The return of the repressed.
Sigmund Freud was born on the 6th of May 1856 and passed away in 1939. He was the founder of psychoanalysis which is a therapy. His family was Jewish and he always counted himself as a Jew. He was always interested in philosophy as a student but later in his studies changed his mind and studied theories about the unconscious mind. Freud elaborated

the theory that the mind is the energy system of the body. He also made theories about someone’s personality; this is composed by three elements known as the id, the ego and the superego. These three elements work together to create complex human behaviour. At the time of Freud’s theories, other scientists and the public was considered shocking and caused a lot of debate and disagreement, his theories took an effect and influenced a number of subject’s example, sociology, psychology and anthropology. His theories are all about how the mind works, what we think to what we say, how we react over things long or short term. This basically explains why we say things we regret, these troubles are all in the mind, something that has happened in the past that we can’t let go of, or still think about these effect our actions majorly. This is what he

calls the unconscious in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in everlasting conflict for supremacy with the defences against them. This also helps explain his work on ‘interpretation of dreams’ where he explains that a dream is an unconscious desires and experiences. This is something that happens in ‘The shinning' when Jack see’s the woman come out of the bath naked in a perfect body for a women and when he gets close, she turns old, unattractive and evil, the complete opposite to what he thought she was. Another example is in Halloween when Mike Myers walks into his sisters room just after she had sex, later on he murders his sister, he then escapes from a mental institute where he was held during his mental state and carries out several other murders. This shows and also proves that his actions throughout his past and memories from his childhood have been repressed and are performing out through his deadly obsession.