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ever hit the study of psychology. His name alone
symbolizes the importance of his theories, and the name
that comes to most people's heads when saying the word
psychology is Sigmund Freud. Freud was a psychodynamic
psychologist and came from the conservative point of view
which states that man is bad and society is good, which I
do not agree with 100% because not all man's actions are
necessarily bad and with bad intentions.
Freud was a real pessimist when it came to human nature.
He identifies man's weaknesses in saying that man is a
biological creature with biological drives. He reflected these
ideas off of Darwin's original ideas. I do agree with this
theory because man's drives are survival and
self-preservation. Freud also stated that mankind's
aggression helps him to survive, he says that man has an
innate sense of survival. I also agree with this theory
because aggression and dominance guarantees our survival.
He also believed that over the many thousands of years that
man has been alive man developed rational thought. Freud
stated that people do not have to live like animals because
overtime we developed a society that has rules and
. . .
that the conscious mind dominates over the unconscious. This is when we seek out a belief system or a value
system. I think that most behavior is conscious. One example of
this could be playing football for a scholarship in order to
go to college. The ID
presses us to survive and pushes us to produce. In other words it's a genetically transmitted response
strategy.
His view of the mind is much like Carl Jung's, but instead of
having the ego at the top he has the conscious alone at the
top with the unconscious on the bottom, which I probably
agree with the most. Mankind will stop at nothing in order to be
number one. The Ego must also learn to deal with
anxiety, and it also helps to boost the self-esteem. On every
weakness that I have especially when it comes to fitness I
kill myself everyday to look my greatest and to feel the best
that I can feel. "
Next there is a defense mechanism called Sublimation
which is the changing of bad behavior and impulses into
socially acceptable behavior and impulses. Jung gets
more into man being more spiritual than sexual which is
almost the opposite of Freud. Escape is
another part of negative reinforcement which is avoiding
something that is already there. Displacement is the next
defense mechanism, and this is when an urge is placed onto
another object.
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