Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous psychologists to
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
regulations in order to keep our animal nature in check. I
agree with Freud on this because of many cases when a
person has some bad intentions in mind but let's them go
Another thing Freud said was the idea of Opposing
Instincts which when comes to mind creates conflict. The
first of the two opposing instincts is the Eros, which is the
life instinct, which also ensures the organisms life. The ID
presses us to survive and pushes us to produce. The Eros
seeks pleasure and then we rationalize it. Next comes the
Thanatos, which is the death instinct, and this instinct says
that all organisms have a death wish towards themselves
and I agree completely. This he says becomes our own...