How Did Sigmund Freud's Use Of Reasoning

The Enlightenment, the use of reason was the way that a person could understand themselves entirely. For example, Descartes’s famous statement “I think therefore I am,” was one of the most important outcomes from the Enlightenment thinkers. It focused on the use of reasoning to describe one’s own existence in the world. Freud took a vastly different approach. He focused on the mysteriousness of the unconscious mind that cannot be explained using reason nor logic. The ideas created by Sigmund Freud caused a great outcry from the masses and challenged all the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers. His works challenged the Enlightenment’s use of reasoning and described a view of humanity as an imperfect and unable to be defined using reason.
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Even though the Enlightenment developed some of its own challenges with the church, Freud didn’t like the church’s influence on his research. Freud saw the church as one of the reasons why humans are always at conflict within themselves. In Freud’s research, the ego and super-ego both dealt with society. The ego was more concerned with how society would view it if it were to satisfy the primal needs of the id. To explain the ego Freud said, “This relation to the external world is decisive for the ego. The ego has taken over the task of representing the external world for the id, and so of saving it; for the id, blindly striving to gratify its instincts in complete disregard of the superior strength of outside forces, could not otherwise escape annihilation.” 2The ego is being described as the part of oneself that is trying hard to not get in trouble with society while it is satisfying the needs of the id. The superego, on the other hand, is the moral compass that people held themselves to. Many of the morals and values of society were religious ones. Freud say this as highly problematic when looking at the human mind. It prohibited people from behaving like humans naturally do. In Civilization & Die Weltanschauung, Freud stated, “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside
They challenged the artistic rules and created something different. Because of his work many artists tried their best to tap into their unconscious and use that as inspiration. Since cameras were invented and there was no need for people to draw realistic images that could be captured using a camera. Instead they wanted to draw totally different realities that came from the unconscious mind. This movement was called Surrealism. It was developed in Paris in 1924 and was inspired by Freud’s discoveries. One of the artist during this movement was Joan Miro and his masterpiece titled, “The Birth of the World”. He said that for this painting he wanted to create “the amorphous beginnings of life”.3 From looking his painting you can see just that. Paint is flung about with many different blots of paint in some areas. There are lines and geometric shapes of different colors, but there is no logical pattern in this painting. Rather the mostly black and dark grey/green, depicts what Freud spoke about the unconscious and its mysterious ways. There is nothing that can really be deciphered about the beginning of life. What can be taken from it is that life is not perfect and happy like many paintings from the Bible. Instead, it is dark and irrational and unruly by