Freud a Look at Man's Soul

It is almost daunting to start such a journey. I have had such a tremendous adventure with the topic of this paper, which continues to unfold and expand. I do believe that it will continue to unfold as I write it. Freud is proving to be one of those authors where at the surface his work presents itself in bold letters, leaving me the feeling that I can get what he is saying by reading the titles. Yet the deeper I go the deeper Freud goes. He has writing in-between the lines and then in-between those lines making it very difficult to ingest in a sitting. I will come up with a theory and then in re-reading, to find evidence for my theory, I find that his theory is actually the same as mine. At first I find myself upset because I am looking for something to prove my point yet this turns to a huge admiration for the personal work that Freud did himself to deliver such thought provoking ideas and material, not to mention this is not about proving a point. I started with the intention of comparing the differences in my understanding what life is all about in contrast with Freud’s. This sounds like, and is a massive undertaking, but Freud has really spent his entire adult life writing about what experience is for himself and his patients. I also have spent a good portion of my life trying to make sense of it in an intellectual way, which I have recently found a bit restrictive. I get the feeling that Freud renounced religion based on the freedom that it provided in staying “still.” I feel that anti-Semitism definitely played a role in his renunciation but I feel Freud retained a deeper sense of Spirituality than that of most religions.
While Freud believed that the Soul was born in the womb and died with the person, I believe that the Soul is what directs our life on earth for an evolution of the Soul itself for purposes beyond the understanding of a life on Earth. I agree with Freud, for the most part, on sexuality and the Libido as being the most promising playing