ur dreams is what you would call a "censor." A censor stands before our dreams and says: "Thou shall not pass." Just like all through the nineteenth century , the Eastern European Jew tried to get admissionto bourgeois Western civil society. During Freuds time he experienced the journey of seeking social acceptance and rejection. Which, for Freud that was very difficult to deal with. His internal censor definately represented bourgeois-Christian nineteenth century culture. There were standards to live by, and components of the common culture, as part of the personality structure. Internal censor, accordingto Freud is "the censor which allows nothing to pass without excersizng its rights and making such modification as it sees fit in the thought which is seeking admission to consciousness." It is the greatness of Jewish "passing" and its cognate, which is the "Jewish joke," that stand behind Freuds discovery of "internalization." It seems as though Freud started his study of the unconscious by examining the psychopathology of everyday life.Freud was always fascinated by just about any phenomenon, espacially of "unsuitable affect," its expression, suppression, and repression, and ofcourse the most important of all, how it passed or failed the censor.According to The Ordeal of Civility Freud was an expert on the status of the emancipated Jew in the late nineteenth century. Freud studied how he could cope or fail to cope with the terminal social stage of Emancipation.Freud deals mainly with feelings, thoughts, and attitudes.He was definately one of those people who lookdeep into everything to find out truth. He wants no fiction in life, only facts. Freud was interested in pariahs,most especially what is called "pariah affect,"and the difficulties in the bourgeois-Christian West.Freuds interests in civility preceded his concern with Civilization and Its Discontents, in 1930. James A.Sleeper writes that the primary component in the socializa...
