Plato and Freud Plato and Freud, two very influential and intellectual people of their own respective societies, have formed opinions about the mind and the soul and how it is constructed to work hand in hand. According to Plato, all individuals possess instinctive knowledge that tells us about the things we experience in our world. Plato's view suggests that one must resurrect the knowledge that is already imbedded in the brain when we were born. …showed first 75 words of 1564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1564 total…gain control over desire through establishing order among the parts of the soul. There's a sense that if we are to establish civilized life properly, then the first thing we must attend to is the individual's sense of his or her own psychological and therefore moral makeup and in this respect, Plato and Freud are very alike. They have proven this with countless essays namely the Allegory of the Cave and The Interpretation of Dreams.