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Freud claimed to have discovered ‘scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.’ What according to Freud, is the unconscious, what was its role within the human mind, and how did he set about studying it? What was scientific about his metho
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Freud claimed to have discovered 'scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.' What according to Freud, is the unconscious, what was its role within the human mind, and how did he set about studying it? What was scientific about his methods? What was novel about his theories and methodologies and how much did they owe to the work of others? Freud proposed that the unconscious is a part of the mind, which is said to be inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions. The conscious and unconscious mind can be in conflict with one another. Such conflicts overflow into the individual's behaviour for example resulting in hysteria, however such behaviours can be resolved according to Freud by bringing the memories that embody the repressed fears and conflicts into consciousness where they can be resolved. In his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud sought to explain how the unconscious...
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