Sigmund Freud rocked the world of psychology with his new and unorthodox theories. He went against the establishment teaching what he considered to be the "great truth" or the way he thought the mind actually behaved. Freud opposed the traditional and early trends of the twentieth century, this was a time when society placed importance on morality, loyalty, intellect, and emphasized the importance of family. An example of Freud's different views in his idea of what the school program should have been. He pushed for the development of emotions over intellect; His idea was schools should healthy personalities instead of focusing strictly on education. Because Freud dared to venture outside the boundaries of "traditional psychology" (this was when all psychology was based on scientific based theories) he received a lot of criticism.
             Freud's genius was his ability to analyze and theorize his observation. His idea were not always new ideas, but were extensions on concepts on ready in existence. The theory of the unconscious was not a discovery of Freud. Psychologist before Freud described the unconscious as a part of the mind that dealt with feelings and thoughts. Freud declared that the unconscious was a separate part from the mind and that it was the minds own wishful impulses and expressions. Freud developed the idea of unconscious says Dr. Rueben author of "Freud a Critical Re-Evaluation of His Theories". He made the unconscious a working tool for the psychologist, instead of a speculative device, as it had been in the past. (Red 39)
             At the beginning of the century Freud's works were raising horrific storms in the medical society. His theories of the unconscious and of sexuality infantile produced mounds of opposition and gross amounts of misunderstanding (Zaretsky 65). At a convention of Neurologist in 1910 Professor Wilhelm Weygandt denounced Freud's wo
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