Did you agree with sigmund freud theory?

Answer 1

Through diagnosis of disturbed female patients, Frued concluded that much human behaviour is due to unconscious motivation. We are often unaware of the real reason for our actions. The influence of early childhood experiences are fundamental for personality development. It is experiences within the family in the first few years of life, Freud contends, which largely shape our future psychological and social functioning.

Frued emphasizes the instinctual and biological side of human development, rather than the social side of human development stressed by Mead and Cooley. According to Frued, society prohibits us from expressing certain instincts and desires, especially impulses related to sex and aggression, social order would be impossible without the regulation of these drives. Hence society imposes it's will on the individual, suppressing and channeling the drives for socially acceptable outlets but often doing so in ways that lead to later neuroses and personality disturbances. Freud lays heavy emphasis on the social control of the sex drive. This drive present even in infants leads to constant conflict between individual and society.

Personality, Frued segments, into three basic interacting parts. 'Id' is made up of biologically inherited urges, impulses and desires. It is selfish irrational, impulsive, antisocial and unconscious. The 'Id' is operative on the pleasure mechanism, on the principle of having whatever feels good. Infants are said to be controlled totally by 'Id'. They want every desire fulfilled without delay, but parents interfere and infants learn to wait until it is time to eat, to control bowel movements and to hold their temper.

To cope up eith the denial of pleasure children begin to develop 'ego' which is the conscious, rational part of the self that rationally attempts to medias between the demands of the social environment and the deep unconscious urges of the 'Id'. But ego itself is not sufficient to control the 'Id'.

At about four or five years of age, the'super ego'or the conscience begins to develop. The child learns about the demands of the society through parents, internalizes these demands into personality in the form of the 'superego' which in a sense an internal version of the moral authority of the society. We punish ourselves through guilt feelings and shame at the same time we feel good about ourselves when we live up to the standards of the 'super ego'. Through this internal monitoring mechanism we learns to mould our behavior in socially acceptable ways and repress socially undesirable thought and actions.

Freud did not see 'Id', 'Ego' and the 'Superego' as separate regions of the brain but he saw them as separate interacting, conflicting processed within mind. Freud's theory is valuable in the sense that it stressed the personality as the product of the interaction between the human organism and the social forces that surround it and he underlined the importance of early childhood socialization on later conscious motives and behaviour.

Answer 2

No , I think Freud had plenty of issues of his own which clouded his objectivity.