(Eros or love) and the death force (Thanatos or death). Freud viewed sexual motivation or life instinct as biologically rooted and demanding satisfaction. Libido goes through four developmental stages: oral, anal, phallic, and genital; the phallic stage ends with a resolution of the Oedipal conflict. For Freud, the personality was developed by these biologically driven psychosexual forces (Schultz & Schultz, pp. 439-443).
Freud had a negative attitude regarding sex in general; he decided to give up sex and began the task of self-analysis with the method of dream analysis. Freud viewed the dream as representing repressed infantile wishes that were unable to come into consciousness due to the censor (super-ego). Dreams attempt the release of sexual tension and fulfillment of instinctual drives. Wishes bypass this obstruction by distortion, disguise, and deception. For Freud, dreams were the road to the unconscious (Brill, 1938, pp. 183-209; & Gershman, 1983, p. 220; Palombo, p. 301, 1983;
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