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This paper outlines Sigmund Freud's life and looks at how psychoanalysis can be considered a product of both Sigmund Freud's personal experiences and observations, as well as the time he was living in. It describes how Freud produced a scientific method for investigating the field of cognitive processes and the unconscious and how he theorized that the behaviours exhibited were a product of unconscious desires.

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"Next, Freud introduced five stages of the all-important sex drive, which occur in order from birth to adolescence: oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital. It is suggested that if not all stages are gone through completely, as an adult one would have traits that indicated a fixation with one of the stages. For example, someone who chain-smokes cigarettes and constantly chews on the end of a pen might have an oral fixation because he or she might not have been weaned properly. Furthermore, Freud suggested that our dreams are usually compromised of unconscious sexual wishes or desires that are not acceptable to consciously wish or desire for. By dreaming, we are able to control and satisfy the desires or wishes while still keeping them in an unconscious state of mind. In Freudian therapy, our dreams would be analyzed for inherent sexual foundations. "

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