"Whatever case and whatever symptom we take as our point of departure,
in the end we infallibly come to the field of sexual experience" Sigmund Freud
Freud was a person who believed that everything about humans stemmed from sexual experiences in one way or another, I disagree with this completely. This statement is way to broad, some things in life may be tied back to the human sexual drive but not all things. For example, my want to do good in college is so that I can get a good job not because I have "penis envy" or the Oedipus complex. The idea that sexual drive is the strongest of all the factors that drive humans may in fact be true. But, just because it may be the strongest drive does not mean that it drives everything in human existence. I feel it's human nature to want to peg down one reason for everything when we know full well there is no one reason for everything. Freud just feel into that trap when discussing psychoanalysis.
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You're right; strong drives are not necessarily ubiquitous drives.
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