Third Body Parapragh

Both Conrad and Freud agree that society plays a major role in shaping and defining the instinctual nature of human beings and their ability to suppress such primitive instincts. As people began migrating towards civilizations, religion, and other structured institutions in society, the taboo acts proposed by Freud, such as incest, rape, etc., were suppressed over time due to their disgusting nature. By the early 1900s, when both men began laying their arguments in their respective fashions, life had become fairly attuned towards suppressing all those bad thoughts into what Freud calls the id. Because of this transformation in the human mindset and their acceptance of universal laws, Freud and Conrad were able to successfully develop theories about the human psychology. For instance, for hundreds and thousands of years, men were used to having polygamous relationships; however, by 1900, men were expected to have only one wife and it was taboo in most advanced societies to be polygamous. Both Conrad and Freud would argue that this taboo act became taboo because societies slowly developed the ideology of monogamous relationships and men were taught that polygamy was bad and subsequently forced any impulse to be with multiple women into his subconscious. This act relates to both beliefs by Conrad and Freud even though it is believed they did not discuss their findings and they chose completely different mediums of getting out their message.