Universal Neurosis Sigmund Freud defined the goal of psychoanalysis to be to replace unconscious with conscious awareness, where the id was ego shall be, and through this an individual would achieve self-control and reasonable satisfaction of instincts. His fundamental ideas include psychic determinism, the power and influence of the unconscious, as opposed to the pre-conscious mind, the tripartite division into id, ego and superego, and of course the ideas of universal illusion and universal effects of the Oedipal complex. The examination of the Oedipal complex is the most essential to the understanding of Freud’s