I cut a bit in the following quote:
1) I said I do not feel joy seeing the smile on his face, confessing the MURDER of children. There are different smiles And I would not find joy in his smile after he would not be convicted for example, because of a technical error. This is a smile of injustice, that doesn´t give me joy. I do get a fuzzy feeling from smiles of criminals who work with street-dogs. (Just saw the documentary on discovery )
2+3) In my opinion Freud was a bit of a quack, especially during his last years (quackery is şarlatanlık). Okay, quack is a bit overstated. I think 80% of his ideas were totally crazy. When I first started to study psychology I thought "wow, interesting, I never realised that" with what I read from his work. Most people quote Freud, so I thought he MUST be right. But as I started to read more and more of his work, and learned about his life, I started to totally disagree with his views. The guy was a total nutcase (with a deadly fear of the number 62), and connected almost every single problem a person could have with sexuality.
As much as i know Freud is an important man.He is the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud thought human is a puppet of his brutal and sexual wills. He thought human is a destructive animal. So he called humans evil. But i don´t agree with him. I don´t think humans are always destructive. He defends there are only two motives under our behaviors: sex and brutality. Maybe he thinks all kinds of pleasures(being proud, feeling good) are some kind of sexual emotions. I am not sure. But i think there is one motive too it is "to know". People always wanted to know more along the history. And they didn´t care whether others condemn them or not. The will of knowing generally makes people creative and constructive. But not always. The will of knowing whether the atom would break up or not caused atom bombs to be made.
I think the important question here why people always want to know more? Because people are egoist creatures. We always want to have more. More money, more women, more dignity and more knowledge. We can never satisfy our wills for a long time. Always the new ones will show up. Maybe Freud thought this would cause destruction in the society in the end. But we also help more people to satisfy ourselves more. So wanting something more is not always destructive. Wanting to know more is the motive of scientists. And thanks to it, we live these comfortable lives.
So egoism is not always bad 
Edited (8/4/2010) by gokuyum
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