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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Sigmund Freud and the twentieth century

During the twentieth century, the world's 16th most influential person, Sigmund Freud, was living in Austria, going through all the event, including the event of the highest statistic of death in the world history, WWI. Throughout the first World War, Freud witness how much people are driven to kill others and development of science ard used to kill people, which lead him to the theory that people have a death drive equal to that they have the sexual drive.

posted by Ju-da-su at 11:08 AM

9 Comments:

  • Very good and effective post. Thanks for the info.
    Well Done.

    By Blogger Pun, at 1:55 PM  

  • thats a very significant aspect of freud's influence! so, that is how he establish the theory on sex drive.
    wonderful.

    By Blogger poi, at 3:05 PM  

  • Short & effective...that's good. It makes life easier. Keep it up

    By Blogger DanielR, at 3:25 PM  

  • Yes, I agree on the importance of Freud's theories of sexual and death drives, and how wars affected him.
    =D

    By Blogger Unknown, at 3:25 PM  

  • your post was very clear and there was a lot of information. good job keep it up

    By Blogger Paras, at 5:54 PM  

  • Death and sexual drive are equal. Interesting. I just wondering, death drive is a drive to get yourself killed or a drive to kill yourself.

    By Blogger Maytee, at 6:30 PM  

  • WWI did really had a great impact on freud. he develop theory of death n sexual drive~ very interesting

    By Blogger Unknown, at 7:51 PM  

  • Indeed was his experience with WWI victims very effective and indeed negative did his ideas become. Very straight-forward and well put. Great job.

    By Blogger Daniel, at 9:57 PM  

  • I totally agree that WWI must really had a great impact on Freud to develop the idea that our sexual drive is equal to our death drive. Nice summary, simple but effective.

    By Blogger Poxxy@SCHOOL, at 12:11 AM  

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