Some Curious Facts About Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious

“In the wonderful realm of the mind, I can be free like everyone else.” -Helen Keller- Freud represents the peak of psychoanalytic criticism and, at the same time, its decline. However, his psychoanalytic theory has produced both great rejections and debates concerning its validity. Nevertheless, what can’t be criticized is the advances his theory made in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and scientific medicine. Some call it science and some call it pseudoscience. In fact, Freud inaugurated a line of thought based on the destruction of the concept of the self through the study of the unconscious. It had an…