n of feelings, among other things. Thus there is no reason why amnesia should overtake these psychical acts, which carry no less weight than those of a later age.15 He affected the way criminologists understand the pathology of crime. Some criminals today are given psychiatric treatment instead of prison sentences. Freuds ideas helped people understand the art movement of surrealism. Like psychoanalysis, surrealistic art delves into the unconscious mind.16 In popular culture, Freuds ideas are often used to interpret behavior. For example, an incorrect word that has some psychological meaning is called a Freudian slip. Art and literature are often analyzed in Freudian terms. In a recent episode of FOXs "Ally McBeal," Freuds book, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious was quoted to prove the subconscious aggression of one character towards another. "Sigmund Freud--along with Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einsteinis among that small handful of supreme makers of the twentieth-century mind whose works should be our prized possession."...
