Sigmund Freud is widely known for his extra-ordinary contribution to the world of psychology, especially to the domain of psychoanalysis. But he is less known as a social theorist. His contribution in this area is quite extensive, important, and relevant for understanding of many social facts, including the delicate process of social change. His utterings are worthwhile, reasonable, and scientific to a great extent. Freud is not valuable only for his theoretical activities, but he is also inevitable for locating a better profile of human behavior, society, culture, and civilization.
By exhibiting the fact that neither the unconscious was absolute, eternal, or unalterable nor the conscious, he emphasized the idea that the reality and psyche were interdependent. Social circumstances and psyche shaped and conditioned each other; neither could grow in isolation. Freud pointed out that there was a conflict within each individual and that was the fundamental feature of 'socialization' into every societyan unavoidable 'Repression', characterizing human life. Repression occupies a major area in Freudian literature, so does the idea of social distance. Social distance, according to Freud, is not only a biological entity, but also is a functional entity. Social distance, as is adhered to by the Marxian dialectical materialists as being the creation of private property and its disproportionate ownership, identified as a symbol of superiority in any such spheres as power, prestige, privilege, etc, is considered to be an inevitable phenomenon in human existence and its movement forward.
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Dewan Shamsul Arefin was a sociology teacher by profession. He was working as a part-time lecturer in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey for about a decade in the immediate past. After receiving his Masters degree and completing the most part of requirements for Ph.D. at Rutgers in early eighties, he had also worked as a visiting faculty for the same department of the same university.
Before he joined Rutgers University in 1980 for higher studies, he was a lecturer in the department of sociology at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh where he had taught for five years. He already had a Masters and a Bachelor's degree with honors in 1968 and 1967 respectively from Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
Arefin had a strong penchant for writing, and he did write quite a lot, both when he was in Bangladesh and now in USA. His writings are, in fact, considered and valued by most of his readers as unaffected, objective, sociological in nature and deeply of public interest. Among various involvements that he had in this field in Bangladesh and now in newly adopted homeland America, here are the few:
Executive Editor of the 'Janomot' (Public Opinion), it was a Bangladesh version of a weekly Bengali newspaper in London by the same name, Member, Board of Editors, 'Charampatra' (the ultimate words), Editor-in-Chief, 'Shwapakhme' (a politico-literary journal), Associate Editor, 'The Mission' (a Dhaka University affiliated publication on ideas and thoughts), Editor / Publisher, 'Kak' (Crow) and 'Kownik' (Angular): an anthology of poems, Chief Editor, 'The Forum' (a quarterly progressive journal on national and international economic and socio-political issues published from New Jersey / New York), Feature writer / Freelancer, for 'The Targum' and 'Livingston Medium' (Rutgers University New Brunswick and Livingston campus daily publications).
He is also the translator of the historical documentary book, 'Twenty Years after the Genocide in Bangladesh', published by Alpine Printing and Publishing Group, NY, May 1994.
Arefin is also the author of the following books, all of which are in Bengali. Translated English title beside each one of them gives a sense of undercurrent theme upon which it is based:
Obama ?: 2011
Nelson Mandela: Shontrash O Shanti: 2011 (Nelson Mandela: Terrorism and Peace)
Daner Shotru Shattya - Bamer Shotru Shattya: Shottyer Mitra Ke ? 2008: (Enemy of the Right is Truth - Enemy of the Left is Truth: Who is the Ally / Friend of Shottya?): Received the first 'Best Bangla Book Award' in 2008 given by the Weekly Thikana, the most circulated NY-based Bengali newspaper overseas.
Munafar Shontrash: 2005 (Terrorism of Profit)
Life and Debt - No Freedom Yet: 2003
Fortress America, Blue Skirt, Deconstructioner Globalization Abong Annannya Proshongo: 2000 (Fortress America, Blue Skirt, Globalization of Deconstruction & other Issues)
Tritiya Bishwey Pati Burjua O Annannya Proshongo: 1998 (Petty-Bourgeoisie in the Third World & Other Issues)
Arefin was the president of Bangladesh Society of New Jersey in 1989 - 90, 1990 - 1991, 1993 - 1994 and 2002 - 2003. He happens to be one of the founding members of this organization.
At present, he is the president of Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Bhashani Foundation, New York, USA.
