Interview: Sigmund Freud on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-08-24 07:23:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Sigmund Freud

How's the afterlife treating you?

It is a wonderful orgy for the senses!

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was a neurologist who invented the fields of psychoanalysis and psychology.  I believed that sexual desire was the motivation for all human interaction and pioneered many psychoanalytical techniques, including psycho-therapy, dream interpretation, and free association.   

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

We do not even understand how to help ourselves.  How can we possibly hope to help anybody else?

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

The society which is plagued by human trafficking is one in which the id rules over all, and our basest desires are fulfilled without regard to others.  Which must build a society in which the super ego has more control over the id, thereby ending human trafficking.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

Q: How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? 

A: Three, two to hold the ladder and one to turn the penis... I mean light bulb!

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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