dreams could be proven to have a meaning.11 Attention was paid to the early childhood remembrances. Freuds goal was to get his patients to understand their feelings and help them find ways to deal with them. Although he was famous for being the father of psychoanalysis, Freud was not limited to that field. He came up with his own theory of mind to explain all mental activity and applied that theory to all aspects of culture: art, literature, religion, politics, education, and law.12 His extensive writings show his interest in all these subjects. Freud is one of the most influential thinkers in history. People understand human nature much better because of his thoughts. His theories on sexual development have opened up discussion and treatment of sexual matters.13 Freud had much to say about the existence of sexual needs in human beings and animals. He described how this need is expressed in biology by the assumption of a sexual instinct. He went on to talk about the difference from this supposal in ideas of the popular opinion. Popular opinion believes that sexual needs are absent in childhood, only to set in during puberty and the coming of maturity. Maturity combined with manifestations of an irresistible attraction exercised by sex upon another provoke this. Freud says that these views are all false and by no means true. He felt that those theories include a number of errors, inaccuracies and mad-brained conclusions.14 His emphasis on early childhood experiences has led to the growth of the study of early childhood development. Freud felt that mankind is very accustomed to the lack of memory of the impressions of childhood. He pronounced that a normal three or four year old child already exhibits an immense amount of highly organized mental functioning in the expressio...
