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Was Sigmund Freud in favor of free will?

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I will answer with a tangent, that I think will help you with your question. Freud talked about psychic determinism. Some people think that then he didn't believe in free will (or that he was not in favor of it), but that is not the case. read more

No. Freud did not believe in free will, if by free will we mean the power of our conscience to determine our actions. There are no psychological phenomenons that are not determined by unconscious process. So our conscience is also determined by unconscious process, therefore our actions are determined by unconscious process. read more

His daughter Anna Freud had done the most significant work on this field, yet she credited Sigmund with defense mechanisms, as he began the work. The defense mechanisms include: denial, reaction formation, displacement, repression/suppression (the proper term), projection, intellectualisation, rationalization, compensation, sublimation and regressive emotionality. read more

Sigmund Freud expounded that people are fundamentally driven by inherited unconscious, instinctual, animalistic urges, primarily lust, eros, and aggression, thanatos (1920). Additionally, he believed in id, a primitive, passionate, irrational psychic force that dwells in the unconscious, and is driven by the pleasure principle (Freud, 1923). read more

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