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This 5
page report discusses Sigmund Freud’s influence throughout the
past century and how it has served to shape a great deal of the
attitudes and beliefs of Western society regarding public
education. Freud clearly understood that work and a person’s
contribution to society and its economy were crucial
developmental factors for human beings. As a result, educational
systems had to be developed to reflect that process of
development. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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public institutions ranging from the healthcare system to the educational system and beyond. Freuds "Civilizations and its Discontents" (1930) presented the world with the idea that humanity and the collective
thinking of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their interactions with others is what
defines the parameters of their collective reality and causes the individual to find that his or her separate existence is essentially defined by a combination of the repressive aspects of
society in conflict with individual desires. Freud was convinced that the conflict is predictably determined in favor of civilization at a cost to human happiness. In Chapter 31
of his "Civilization and its Discontents," Freud comments: "When we look at the relation between the process of human civilization ands the development or educational process of individual human beings,
we shall conclude without much hesitation that the two are very similar in nature, if not the very same process applied to different kinds of objects." Such a statement
appears as a rational, almost simplistic statement that a scientist, as Freud perceived himself to be, would make. And yet, only a paragraph later he explains that: "Just as a
planet revolves around a central body as well as rotating on its own axis, so the human individual takes part in the course of development of mankind at the same
time as he pursues his own path in life." Such a statement makes it clear that Freud believed he understood the connections that exist between an individual and the
society in which he lives. Other works of Freud demonstrate that he believed himself to be an excellent authority on how an individuals path should develop. Freud and
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