tic experience greatly upsets every ongoing process in the body. Emotions are stirred and internal chaos results. After the initial incident, a fear arises and a person feels great anxiety when near the place or people involved in the initial traumatic experience. This anxiety causes the need for repression in order to calm the anxious feeling. The repression causes the need to create a symptom in order to take away any connection to the initial trauma. This symptom is generally a phobic one. This is Freud's explanation for the creation of phobias. All of the aforementioned ideas led Freud to the conclusion that: "Anxiety is a reaction to a situation danger. It is obviated by the ego's doing something to avoid that situation or to withdraw from itsymptoms are created so as to avoid the generating of anxiety." Now that Freud has come to a conclusion on anxiety, he begins to try to theorize why different symptoms come about. Basically, childhood neurosis is blamed for later development of symptoms. Everyone is slightly neurotic and will develop phobias, or symptoms relating to past traumatic experiences. Those who have many symptoms and are obsessional neurotics have problems stemming form childhood neurosis, which was never overcome. "Signs of childhood neurosis can be found in all adult neurotics without exception" It is evident that Freud attributes failed repression to obsessional neurosis.Freud was a scientist. He wanted to make sure that all of his theories could not be disputed. Therefore, he needed to cover his point from every possible angle and continue to further develop it. While doing this, he realized that his theory was incorrect and needed to be changed. Instead of dismissing any possible criticisms he changed his idea in favor of one that is more suitable in light of new evidence. This is why Freud was obsessed with making the change correctly. He wanted to be correct, as we all do, and when he witnesse...
