Young Goodman Brown
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The Man with the staff and Young Goodman Brown
Sigmund Freud, who was born in Vienna, Austria, developed theories about how the unconscious mind affects the conscious decisions in our daily lives during his lifetime. The 'Second Lecture' is one of five lectures given by Freud, which is about the new concept of hysteria, the conflict of psychology, and resistance and repression. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804, and he was brought up in the stern Puritanical family. His family background like this affected his melancholy character and his work. Through 'Young Goodman Brown', Hawthorne showed that the human being, who keeps the original nature of good and evil, is afraid of their existence and the border of virtue and vice.
Basically, the unconscious of Brown has a wicked character, which is controlled adequately by his id, ego, and superego. The experience of Goodman Brown throughout the night is the thing in his unconscious and it becomes to come out by talking with the man the staff when Goodman Brown is in a hypnotic state. His unconscious shows what he really wants. It is id. In other words, his conscious can be ego, which controls his unconscious...