The predominant conception of man was fundamentally altered by Darwin’s evolutionary doctrine, where man was now seen different from non-human animals only in degree of structural complexity (Thornton, n.d). As a result, man could now be treated as an object of scientific investigation – examining human behavior and its motivation – as this was now made plausible by Darwin. Freud implicitly accepted this new world-view, fueled by his colossal esteem for
The predominant conception of man was fundamentally altered by Darwin’s evolutionary doctrine, where man was now seen different from non-human animals only in degree of structural complexity (Thornton, n.d). As a result, man could now be treated as an object of scientific investigation – examining human behavior and its motivation – as this was now made plausible by Darwin. Freud implicitly accepted this new world-view, fueled by his colossal esteem for