Sigmund Freud believes that human has the needs of life, in his opinion, the desire for life is to the desire for sex. He developed dream theory, psyco-analysis theory, etc. out of his own experience which makes his theories for some scientist and psychologists are not scientific enough because the theories seemed to be personal interpretation and assumption.
Born as a Jewish child, feeling abandoned as a child, he made his own principles, the dark side of psychology, that is what Mr. Bagus called the theory. Under the power of Hitler during his childhood, he witnessed the weakness of having a religion. His dad, who is a Jewish, once he walked over the street and got attacked. His hat fell into the mud. But, his dad did not fight back. He just took his muddy hat and went by without having the feeling of humiliated. Freud was mad by his weak less-powerful father being treated like a dummy. He hated his dad until his dad really died. He had this feeling of uncertainty, whether he should be happy or sad when his dad died. His disappointment of his own childhood, religion, and life in general directed him to make such theory which sadly, nowadays has been common in our society. People unconsciously are omitted Freudian as they talk some improper words as though they are proper. Vulgar talks in the media are becoming things in common, like just a habit in a daily life. We probably forget the wisdom, the valuable heritage we mostly leave behind.
The thought of Freud, how he assumes human is that dark animal character has been long time before brought up and encountered by Imam Al Gahazali. In summary, Al Ghazali said be aware to yourself if you think happiness is something you gain after eating and drinking, then you have this animal character, or if you have ferocious (Ind.: agresif) feelings and acts, and if you see yourself as a machine (behaviorist-neuroscience thinker).
Al Ghazzali then countered this dark side human into this wonderfully beautiful quote:
"And if you possess angelic qualities, whose nature it is to worship God in sincerity and continually to await the vision of His beauty, then like them you should unceasingly, resting neither day or night, be zealous and strive that you may become worthy of the vision of the Lord."
In his argument, human has inherited the prophetic nature of Adam. Thus, the nature of human is to worship sincerely. This sincerity and obedience to God drives the feeling to miss the moment of meeting God day and night for them to be worthy enough in the eyes of God.
At the end, life is a choice. Everything in life seems to be a two-eyed-sword, having both the good and bad sides. You've got to choose either way. Don't swear those who are deviant because the deviants are part of Allah's will. Allah knows and wants to give His guidance to those who learn and understand.
Note: Summarized from Islamic Psychology Lecture-Dr. Bagus Riyono. After getting lost in a class for 15 minutes where you feel like you have no clue at all, discovering that you believed you just got into a wrong class, something like intuition class. Then you escaped from that place and finally you found the right one!
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