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Freudian Psychology is an example of the diffusion of new intellectual concepts during the twentieth century. It depicted man as a savage beast that had little or no regard for members of his own species. This contradicted the Enlightenment ideals of progress and rationality that was dominant in intellectual thought in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There was the id, the primitive, animal like part of the brain that controlled sexual impulses. The ego was the sort of subconscious, a mix between the id and the superego. The superego was the moral and rational part of the brain that suppressed the lower two. Basically, Freudian Psychology stated that human behavior was an interaction with man’s primitive nature and rationality and morality suppressing it within the mind.  McKay, John P. __A History of Western Society__. 7th ed. New York City: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 