Reading what freud really said we learn that freud was wrong about a few things no surprise being freud himself admitted much of what he wrote was speculation freud is really the beginning of understanding the human mind freud would describe human motivation as eros life sex based drives or thanatos death based instincts freud writes in his opinion men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked they are on the . During his career freud began working on learning how humans thought and what drove people to being successful his work in psychoanalysis was ground breaking and he started to gain notoriety worldwide his analysis of dreams psycho sexual development and identifying the id ego and super ego led to freud becoming known as the father of psychoanalysis his work has been studied by . One of his most enduring ideas is the concept of the unconscious mind which is a reservoir of thoughts memories and emotions that lie outside the awareness of the conscious mind he also proposed that personality was made up of three key elements the id the ego and the superego. What freud really said an introduction to his life and thought schocken books inc paperback book condition new paperback 284 pages dimensions 80in x 52in x 06inthis book offers the most lucid overview available of sigmund freud his legacy and his place in our world as the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and . All thought emotion and behavior is driven by some form of psychic energy this psychic energy can take according to freud two forms the life or sexual energy called libido and the death aggressive energy called thanatos this vision of the main drives is deeply rooted in biology and biological instincts the desire to mate reproduce and protect ones survival all human