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Musings on Freud

Last updated: Mon 21st Apr 2008 at 17:17
Image Credit:  Martin Pulaski on flickr
Image Credit: Martin Pulaski on flickr

Levi Bellfield, the hideous, immature, arrogant night club bouncer from West London was found guilty last month of the murder of two young women. And this person could be you.

No, do not stop reading, pass go or dismiss this article as a joke – Sigmund Freud the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology said so himself.

If you follow Freud’s work then you know he says that, after analysis, most people can be seen as a danger to society.

Not only that, but his theories suggest all human behavior and personality are caused by external forces.

So, given the right environment we all could end up like Levi Bellfield. It is reassuring that much of Freud’s work, such as men being sexually attracted to their mothers, has been denounced.

I know plenty of people who have had far from perfect upbringings and managed not to turn into monsters. Freud’s work suggests anybody could develop the same way as Levi Bellfield, but don’t believe everything he says, after all, the majority of this work has been criticised.



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