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In a short paragraph, analyze the influence of the work of Sigmund Freud on the social sciences. Be certain to include examples to formulate and give your opinion on how Freud impacts you today.

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People often tend to mistakingly state Austrian physician Sigmund Freud, credited as the creator of Psychoanalysis, as a psychologist. In fact, back in his time Psychology as such was not fully formulated as a scientific discipline; Freud was himself a Neurologist. Psychoanalysis is a clinical method used to treat psychopatologies; we can safely state that from its foundation we became familiar with the notion that most psychopatologies stem from sexual repression, which is a consequence of the process of becoming a civilization. Freud and Psychoanalysis' impact on social sciences could be measured in terms that the roots of certain psychiatric illnesses -such as schizophrenia and neurosis- should not be regarded as rooted in physiological but rather mental family-history-related processes. This method also supports the acknowledgement of our own animal, in-the-end-not-so-apart-from-nature condition as a species. Furthermore, Psychoanalysis brought the assumption that all of us host ongoing inconscious processes in our minds -in Literature, it originated the Molly Bloom's vast stream of consciousness we find in James Joyce's Ulysses. Freud's impact on us stays strong and affects the levels of sexualization we find in every aspect of our current lives.

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Sigmund Freud was considered the father of psychoanalysis. He was interested in consciousness and subconsciousness. He was the one who developed and used free association to understand people's behavior. Freud also developed the idea of id, ego, and superego. He impacts the world today because people use the word ego a lot nowadays.

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