Editing Tabula rasa (section)

=== Freud (19th century) ===
The concept of ''Tabula rasa'' can be constructed from [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[psychoanalysis]]. Freud argued that the psyche was largely formed by socialization, not biology or genealogy. (see [[Oedipus complex]]). In Freud's schema of psycho-sexual development, the conflicting drives imprinted by the parents (the id versus the superego) produce ego, and that in spite of his neuroses, the analysand would discuss matters in a non-adversarial manner. The clinician would simply pose questions to the patient about his neuroses. Exposure to such questions would inculcate the patient's secondary defenses against the neuroses, helping him shed 'substitutive satisfactions,' sadomasochism. Freud's theories implied that humans are largely products of their socialization. In Freudian psychoanalysis, ones' neuroses are agitated until transference neuroses are projected onto the psychoanalyst. Freud posited the individual as a blank slate with an imprint of regressive characteristics through socialization. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glover |first=Willis B. |date=1966 |title=Human Nature and the State in Hobbes |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/229692 |journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=292–311 |doi=10.1353/hph.2008.1175 |issn=1538-4586|url-access=subscription }}</ref>