The Mind's Secrets
The study of the human mind and behavior has had many prominent practitioners,
but no one is more revered than Sigmund Freud. An Austria physician, he is said
to be the father of psychoanalysis. He taught that man has a subconscious mind
in which he keeps repugnant memories which come to the surface surreptitiously
and motivate behavior. Man often tries to rationalize his actions, when, in
reality, they are really the result of suppressed memories coming to the 
surface. Freud's approach to the disturbed person was to attempt therapy by
examining the dreams which make cognizant what the cause of the illness might
be. Only with the airing of deleterious, buried emotions can the person move 
from the nascent stage to that of full health. Freud was considered an iconoclast
in the field of psychology when his ideas first appeared at the beginning of 
this century.


a square peg in a round hole--an able man in the wrong job.
It was a bitter pill to swallow when they had to fire him because 
he was a square peg in a round hole.