Psychoanalysis and society.

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Discusses the significance of psychoanalysis to society. Psychoanalysis is an extension of biology into the realm of consciousness, invoking the same principles in explaining mental phenomena. The distinctive feature of this theory is its emphasis on the unconscious. It, however, is criticized for reducing the beliefs held sacred by the world to 'psychological mechanisms', upon common ground with other biological phenomena; and the interpretation of neurosis consisting in the distortion of psychic demands of sex into symbolic equivalents. One of the most important chapters of Freud's psychology is the transformation of primary, unconscious trends into maturer, more intellectualized conscious expression. The role of sublimation in resolving the conflict between the conscious and the unconscious has been highlighted. Removal of unconscious repression through the sublimation is considered ethically the only attitude for the psychoanalyst. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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