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The paper explains Freud's Psychoanalysis Theory and Sartre's belief that man is conscious and free. The paper argues that there is a sharp contrast between Freud who says a person acting from the impulses of his repressions cannot be responsible for his acts because they are unconscious, and Sartre who says a person has always had an awareness of what happens to him and is always accountable for his every deed. The paper states Sartre argues that what Freud claims as unconscious repression is only self-deception.

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"Freud, however, also theorizes that the unconscious mind changes the form or appearance of these repressed thoughts so that the superego will not recognize them and punish the ego with a sense of guilt. Either dreams occur in the person or he turns into a neurotic. By theorizing this way, Freud seems to have admitted that the unconscious mind is not so unconscious, after all, if it can shrewdly elude the superego. The unconscious mind, by Freud's own theory, can even deceive the superego and try to look like something else."

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