How do I view "Young Goodman Brown" from a Freudian point?

Freudian
analysis is based on a number of assumptions. For example, Freud believed that the conscious
mind often seeks to suppress the unconscious; thus, repressed emotions percolate in the realm of
the unconscious, intentionally ignored.

Through psychoanalytic literary
criticism, we can see this at play in some works. Let's take "," for instance. In this
story, what the author never intended (the repressed elements of malevolence, profane desire,
and irreverent behavior in human nature) is in conflict with what the author intended (the moral
nature of the devout).

In fact, there is a fascination with the macabre in
the story. Additionally, the dream-likecasts doubt in our minds, as it does in Goodman Brown's.
Like him, we are led to ask: are the pious really joined in harmonious empathy with the
wicked?

But, irreverently consorting with these grave,
reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins,
there were men of...

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