CC505 Midterm
Noopur Shah
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
1. What are some strengths and weakness of Freud’s ideas?
Strengths:
Freud introduced us to unconscious motivations and how they determine our behavior. The study of the unconscious mind became a base and paved the way for other therapists. Also, the psychosexual stages were introduced which explain the biological and instinctual drive of children. The structure of personality is the foundation of our impulses, behaviors, and our interactions in our mental life. These include the id, ego, and superego. The superego prevents actions the id wants to accomplish; which is important because we all have irrational impulses and the superego saves us from those. It is important to look at the weaknesses of psychoanalysis and Freud’s ideas. The psychosexual stages stop at the age of six when development happens throughout someone’s lifetime. These psychosexual stages are his main focus and there is not much of a focus on how important social factors are on our mental health and development. Psychoanalytical therapists can sometimes be seen as subjective. The therapist analyzes the dreams and that is subjective. There is no empirical research to support his psychodynamic model, although the theory does explain reasons for irregularities in development. A common criticism is he blamed for inadequate parenting on mothers while the father was not in the equation. The time
Freud’s theory of personality examined the interplay between the primitive, instinctual urges—the ‘id’; the practical and rational ‘ego’; and the morally attuned ‘superego’; ‘object relations’ refer to the "object" of an instinct”, which is “the agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved”—most often a person and, according to Freud, most often the mother (Ainsworth 1969, p. 1). The psychosexual development theory that Freud launched reduces our behaviour to mechanistic responses to an instinctive need for pleasure fueled by the ‘libido’ and barriers or distortions to the gratification of the libido at various delineated stages of development were responsible for later problems in life (Kail & Zolner 2012, p. 5). Erik Erikson later added depth to the approach by including more humanistic elements to Freud’s stages and including more periods of development (p.
His theory suggests that unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior. In which is a part of the a person’s personality where they 're unaware “conscious awareness”, such as infantile wishes, desires, demands, and needs that are hidden because of their disturbing nature. He states that “the unconscious is responsible for a good part of our everyday behavior” (Robert 13). Freud would argue that personality is formed during childhood and that everyone’s personality is among three necessary structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego. According to Freud, children go through five stages the oral stage (0 to 18 months), anal stage (18 months to 3 years), phallic stage (3 to 6 years), latency stage (6 to puberty), genital stage (puberty to
Psychoanalytic theories describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion. Psychoanalytic theorists emphasize that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that true understanding of development requires analyzing the symbolic meanings of behavior and the deep inner workings of the mind. They also stress that the experiences children have with their parents earlier on in life shape development. The psychoanalytic theory highlighted by Sigmund Freud who was born in 1856 and died in 1939. As he listened to and examine his parents he was influenced they were the result of experiences early in life. He thought that as children grow up, their focus of pleasure and sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the genitals. As a result, we go through five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. The oral stage is when the infant’s pleasure centers on the mouth, the anal stage is when
Sigmund Freud is highly renowned psychologists known for his most controversial theories in the history of psychology. He is also believed to be the father of modern psychiatry and psychology. His works are read widely and are criticized as well. He has left behind numerous theories regarding human mind and behavior out of which some are commonly accepted and some are widely debated. The question after that arises now is “Why did Freud’s theories get many criticisms?”
The importance of child-parent attachment in Freud 's theory of personality is best captured in his characterization of the infant-mother relationship (Richters & Waters 1991, Brogaard 2015). Freud (as explained by Richters & Waters 1991) described socialization as the process through which a child 's natural erotic and aggressive instincts are gradually brought under the control of the superego. Freud believed that children identify with the superegos as well as the situational behaviors of their parents (Richters & Waters 1991). Identification process, according to Freud, is rooted in the child 's initial total dependence on
Sigmund Freud expressed and refined the concepts of the unconscious, infantile sexuality, repression, and proposed a theory of the human brain’s structure, all part of understanding the human psychological development and treating mental
Freud has proposed a psychodynamic theory according to which personality consists of the id responsible for instincts and pleasure seeking, the superego that attempts to obey the rules of parents and society, and the ego, which mediates between them according to the demands of reality. Psychodynamic theories commonly hold that childhood experiences shape personality. A therapy used is psychoanalysis, which induces ego weakness so that unconscious material is brought to the surface. Some of the techniques used are free association, therapist interpretation, catharsis and working
Freud, the objective theorist, believed that the focus should be on the individual in compartments: defense mechanism, personality structures and levels of consciousness. Freud, Psychosexual stages of Child Development, widely dismissed because of the sexual perspectives. Nonetheless, we can see these concepts being present in the stages of development, such as the oral: the infant finds pleasure in chewing, biting, and sucking objects. The other concepts such as id, ego, and superego focuses on the personality and the balance needed in order to provide and shape individuality and social
Sigmund Freud’s theory of development focuses on the unconscious mind. Freud divided different stages of our lives into three systems such as the id, ego, and superego. The id is an important part of our personality because as newborns, it allows us to get our basic needs met. (Cherry, 2017). The ego is the stage of reality that functions in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind. According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world. The last stage of personality is the superego. The superego is our sense of right and wrong. There are two parts of the super ego: the ego ideal which include rules and standards for good behaviors, as well as the conscience which are bad behaviors that result in punishments. (Cherry 2017). Freud also proposed that psychological development in children takes place in a series of fixed psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. (McLeod, 2008). The first five years of life are extremely important to the formation of adult personality. To satisfy social demands, the id must be controlled followed by the ego and super ego.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), was an influential Austrian psychologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud went on to produce several theories, such as his theory on psychosexual development, which will be the focus of this assignment. Using the case study of a six-year-old patient, I will discuss the key principles of Freud’s theory on psychosexual development. Including, comprehensive definitions of the concepts used, and the stages of Freud’s psychosexual development. Lastly using Freud’s theory, I will explain how the patient’s current behaviour, could impact her behaviour in adulthood.
Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia on May 6TH 1856 in a Jewish family. He later moved to Vienna where he later became known as the father of psychology. Freud earned his medical degree in 1881, and in 1882 he later became engaged and married to his wife which led to the birth of his 6 children. Only one of Freud’s children chose to follow his footsteps in the field of psychology. Throughout his life Freud wrote twenty volumes on theoretical works and clinical studies until he died of cancer in England 1939 at the age of 83, some of his writings are Psychopathology, Theory of sexuality, and The Interoperation of Dreams. I believe that Sigmund Freud seemed like the most interesting man in the world at his point in time; he started the first Vienna school of psychoanalysis, worked in Paris for a long period of time with a French neurologist named Jean Charcot and used hypnosis on patients with hysteria. Freud also worked with Josef Breuer and discovered that by having hysterical patients’ describe the earliest occurrence of their symptoms that it could be linked back to some traumatic event. Sigmund Freud is extremely important to the field of psychology; he laid down the building blocks for most of the different studies in psychology when he stated that the mind is a complex energy system. All of the studies, treatments and theories we know today about the human
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The importance of child-parent attachment in Freud 's theory of personality is best captured in his characterization of the infant-mother relationship (Richters & Waters 1991, Brogaard 2015). Freud (as explained by Richters & Waters 1991) described socialization as the process through which a child 's natural erotic and aggressive instincts are gradually brought under the control of the superego. Freud believed that children identify with the superegos as well as the situational behaviors of their parents (Richters & Waters 1991). Identification process, according to Freud, is rooted in the child 's initial total dependence on