The first school of thought we studied this year was Freuds. The identification of the id, ego, and superego personalities, the psychosexual stages that we grow through, and the defense mechanism all seem very logical. But from studying the theories more, Freuds ideas become more of coincidences than truth for me. The id, ego, and superego types of personalities are something that I believe true of everyone. Every person has one of the characteristics that they can hold true to themselves depending on the situation. Someone could have a weakness for sweets and be constantly eating chocolate (id,) but that same person could be very thrifty and refuse to spend their money on something that they dont need (superego,) and maybe everything else about them could fall in the middle (ego.) The psychosexual sexual stages also come off as obvious guesses to me.
The thought that everyone goes through phases in their life I can attest to, and that certain ones come at certain times, but who didnt know that? When children are real young they constantly put things in their mouth, so anyone, not only Freud, could call this an oral stage. The comparisons of the stages to fairy tales are far stretches. To think that famous authors had certain sexual thoughts in their heads when writing bedtime stories for kids is a little out there. Freuds defense mechanisms are the most accurate of his ideas. Ive always been curious as to why people act to certain situations the way they do. The mechanisms were one part of his ideas that I had used in everyday life.
The Research paper on Freud's Theory Of Id, Ego, Superego
Sigmund Freud believed that our mind always have conflicts with itself. Anxiety and unhappiness is the main symptoms for this situation. Bertha Pappenhein alias Anna O case is one of the classic case study by Freud (Stevenson, 1996). Anna O is a young girl in her early twenties; she was a patient of Dr.Breuer. She showed some physiological and psychological disturbance like nervous cough, rigid ...
Rationalization and denial are things I saw everyday, and when learning about them, compared to other things he discovered, I could relate and see better where there was truth. Freud basically believed in the unconscious, and that its what rules everything we do. I believe in the subconscious, that it effects some decisions that we make, but I dont think that it runs our life. There is a reason we have a conscious, so that we can be aware of choices that we are making and what is going on around us. Behaviorism is the opposite of Freuds beliefs. Behaviorists believe that the unconscious is not at all involved in the decisions and choices people make, because they believe that we really cant make decisions. They believe that we have no free will and that everything we do is because of things learned in the past.
I agree that we learn from observing others and that we learn from our own mistake s. Thats what life is all about. Learning so that we can make ourselves better. I see that through reinforcements we will do certain things too also be true. I think everyone does things because they will get something back in someway. Although everything in the school of behaviorism I agree with and find it fit in with many situations of everyday life, it is something that I cannot wholly side with. The fact that behaviorists believe that we have no free will at all is scary. I feel that I do have personal choice over things I do, and I dont react to every situation because I learned to do things that way.
The last theory of personality we have study in this course is Humanism. Humanism is the belief that our life is run by free will. Life is all about self-actualization to humanistic psychologists, and our goal in life is to be content with ourselves. They believe that we cant do that until we accomplish certain goals, the most important being things we need to survive and the ones that would bring us the most happiness being the hardest to get to. As with the other theories, I believe that this one is partly true. We do have free will and we do all want to be happy with ourselves, but I believe that the other schools of thought do play a role in our lives that this cant be totally accurate.
That last thought brings me to my conclusion. Freuds theory seems to me to be the most far off of them all. Some things seem true, but like I said, they are too obvious and sometimes stretched to fit certain situations in our lives. I believe my opinions and thoughts fall into the social-learning theory. Behaviorism out of all the theories is the one I find most to be accurate, but I do believe that we have free will like social learning suggests. We learn things, but choose to learn them a certain way.
The Research paper on Life Course Case Study
Introduction In this assignment I conduct a life course case study of a seventy-four year old man, Mr. Gambina, in order to find out whether structure or agency has been most influential throughout his life. The agent is the person who actually performs the action, while structure refers to the main structures in society that influence the way the agents act. Most structuralists share a conviction ...
For example, we know that if we study that we will receive good grade. That is a learned trait. Just because we know that we will get something good out of studying, doesnt necessarily mean we will study, that is where our free will comes in. We will study if we aspire to get good grades, but we arent forced to do it..
