Historical Background: Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis of the early twentieth century. Working as physiologist as well as a psychologist, Freud improved the concepts of the unconscious mind, infantile sexuality, and repression. Although most of his theories aren't proven in philological standards most of his work is looked back at for fundamental respects.
Freud's theory of the unconscious can be most easily explained as a, "slip of the tongue or pen, obsessive behavior and dreams... determined by hidden causes in the person’s mind, and so they reveal in covert
form what would otherwise not be known at all." Freud believed that all of the decisions we make are "governed" by mental processes that we are not aware of. That in the back of our minds we are thinking about something and that is driving us to make the decisions we do. Freud believed that our instinct drives were what we say when a word slips our tongue.
Freudianism also included many stages that an infant goes through in their first five years of life. For Feud to do this he specifically separated them into three stages: the oral stage, anal stage, and the phallic stage. During the oral stage babies become very mouth oriented, usually will put anything into mouth, most likely they will suck on their thumbs. Freud said that if the baby is in this stage for two little or to long the child could be permanently damaged. As an adult that was not in the oral stage for long enough they would become a very aggressive person. The anal stage suggests that at around the age of two children become fascinated with their own waste product, and excited to go to the bathroom. If children did not go through this stage they would become anal- retentive and very neat. While on the other end of the scale if they did not go through this stage they would become very messy. The last stage focused on children focusing on their genitalia and gaining the Oedipal conflict for boys and the Electra conflict for girls. Freud was bias toward boys and not many of his findings are supported in psychology as a study, yet he still one of the most respected psychoanalytical psychologists ever.
Freud's theory of the unconscious can be most easily explained as a, "slip of the tongue or pen, obsessive behavior and dreams... determined by hidden causes in the person’s mind, and so they reveal in covert
form what would otherwise not be known at all." Freud believed that all of the decisions we make are "governed" by mental processes that we are not aware of. That in the back of our minds we are thinking about something and that is driving us to make the decisions we do. Freud believed that our instinct drives were what we say when a word slips our tongue.
Freudianism also included many stages that an infant goes through in their first five years of life. For Feud to do this he specifically separated them into three stages: the oral stage, anal stage, and the phallic stage. During the oral stage babies become very mouth oriented, usually will put anything into mouth, most likely they will suck on their thumbs. Freud said that if the baby is in this stage for two little or to long the child could be permanently damaged. As an adult that was not in the oral stage for long enough they would become a very aggressive person. The anal stage suggests that at around the age of two children become fascinated with their own waste product, and excited to go to the bathroom. If children did not go through this stage they would become anal- retentive and very neat. While on the other end of the scale if they did not go through this stage they would become very messy. The last stage focused on children focusing on their genitalia and gaining the Oedipal conflict for boys and the Electra conflict for girls. Freud was bias toward boys and not many of his findings are supported in psychology as a study, yet he still one of the most respected psychoanalytical psychologists ever.