Thesis

Freuds ideas are just as revolutionary as Einsteins

Before the World War, people were comforted in the idea that the world and
everything in it was constant. What goes up must come down, as stated by physicist
Isaac Newton. After the first world war, however, all these beliefs were brought to an
end. New ideas changed everything. The forerunners to these changes were
scientists and scholars. Well-known professor, Albert Einstein created a new basis of
knowledge that differed from the ancient one, but we cannot overlook the ideas of
Freud, which were just as revolutionary.
Data
1. Postwar era characterized by changes in mindsets and
uncertainty
2. Einsteins theory of relativity first changes the view of the world
3. Alberts atomic bomb
4. Freuds psychoanalysis
5. Freuds legacy
Analysis
The war was a wake up call to the people who began to see the flaws in their
systems of education and knowledge. It had pushed people into finding solutions to
the problems at hand. A closed society would no longer have the answers that would
help the people as they went along in life. As a result, they turned to taking matters
into their own hands. There were benefits to be found in scientific developments and
inventions that would make life easier. This era was characterized by uncertainty as
people struggled to find a constant that they could depend on.
The first major change came about when German professor Albert Einstein
published his ideas of the theory of relativity. This theory stated that everything was
relative, meaning dependent on perspective and nothing else. The only thing that
was constant was the speed at which light traveled which Einstein discovered. This
turned the belief that we lived in a world with static laws, upside down. Everything
contradicted ancient scholars works and even the famous Isaac Newton. As people
scrambled to conform to these new sets of ideas, they began searching frantically for
other mistakes that they may have been taught.

Einstein went on to creating the blueprints for an atomic bomb. Einstein equated
energy to the mass times the velocity of light as the base of the design. The atomic
bomb had an unequaled power in those days and even today where a strike is a
deep fear.
Freud was an Austrian neurologist who invented the concept of psychoanalysis. In
this method, doctors could try and discern a reason for their patients behavior based
on their unconscious mind. Using this theory, people with mental disorders were
better categorized and taken care of. With further research he concluded that
humans were driven by hidden desires. This caused people to stray away from the
thought that all humans were reasoned beings and that they had complete control
over their actions.
With the introduction of new ideas everything was rewritten. The works of Freud
have been studied and reinforced to what we have today. He had developed the
foundation of psychoanalysis which proves useful today. There were plenty more
ideas that Freud went on to develop such as the structural model of the human
psyche: Id, Ego, and Superego, human defence mechanisms and finally the
psychosexual stages. The people were encouraged to look within themselves for a
solution, ending the past era of authority and clergy dependent lives.
CONCLUSION
People may label Einstein's contributions as revolutionary, but the works of Sigmund
Freud were just as transformatory if not more. They were the stepping stones on
which people learned how to look inside and at the same time be aware of the fact
that they were not perfect and therefore could not depend on their own judgement. A
revolution is defined as a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something
works or in people's ideas about it and Sigmund Freuds ideas were definitely just as
revolutionary as Einsteins.
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