ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud attempted to understand the complex life of human beings both internally and externally. The term psychoanalysis was first used by Freud in 1896. Freud insisted that all human behaviour could be understood as meaningful or significant, and that these meanings are often unknown to the individual because they are repressed. Freud also claimed that the most frequent repressed wishes and desires were sexual ones which are forbidden in our everyday conventional life, and for a variety of reasons are generally unacceptable to the conscious mind of the person who has them. The pleasure principle aims at immediate satisfaction of our drives by the shortest route and avoiding unpleasure. It must be seen in close relation to the reality principle which modifies the pleasure principle and delays immediate satisfaction, engaging in detours demanded by accommodating to conditions imposed by the external world.
