Can illusions and disillusions affect the personal or collective history? How?

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There are mix beliefs on how to see and define illusions and disillusions . Some scholars , more particularly those who are oriented in a Freudian school of thought (i .e psychoanalysis ) had tried to root out these kind of phenomena through the repressed ideas and desires of the individual . On the other hand , recent researchers most especially those who are schooled in neurology and neuro-psychiatry treat illusions and disillusion as a mental disease or physical problem of an individual However , recent

development in the definition of the said phenomena had tried to reconcile the contrasting schools of thought . Rather than seeing them as exclusively different , some scholars will try to perceive these two views as related . The science of brain anatomy can explain what is happening in the brain with the physical manifestation of the disease or the dis . It can able to explain the particular actions and reactions of each part of the brain . On the other hand , it does not necessarily explain the cause of the dis . In this respect , the Freudian approach is capable of explaining the roots and the cause of the disease or the dis through its explanation using the childhood history of the patient

In this respect , it is difficult to categorize illusions and disillusions as either a psychological dis or a mental dis . It is possible that it is both , sharing both the characteristics of the two categories . In any way , both of...