essay 2 year 2
During this essay the writer will evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of psychosexual development can help to understand a client’s presenting issue. Further on, the writer will describe Freud’s psychosexual theory and relationship with connection to adult neurotic behaviour. Lastly, the writer of this essay will look at the criticism around Freud’s theory.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) who was brought up in a Jewish family had lived in Austria and was notably known as the founding father of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories. The thesis behind the two theories mentioned previously, were based upon the belief of the influence experienced by a person’s internal drives of an individual’s emotions towards their behaviour. This would then be where Freud’s focus and contribution of his study of the psychology of human behaviour developed from his concept of the ‘dynamic unconscious’.
Freud felt that within a person’s unconscious mind there was a great drive for a person to seek pleasure, he referred this as the ‘libido’(Module 2 ; Roth, 2001). In Freud’s theory he divided the mind, known as the PSYCHE, Freud divided this in to three parts. The first part would be referred as the unconscious; second part known as the preconscious and lastly the conscious. However these can be referred by another terminology which is; the ID, EGO and the SUPEREGO (Module, 2).
The ID can be characterised as the part where the mental processing strives the initiation of a person’s behaviour, the end result would be the satisfaction of the human beings needs met. These needs would be to somewhat as similar as to the Maslow Hierarchy – physiological needs, which includes; air, water, food, warmth, shelter, sex etc (Wahba and Bridgewell, 1976).
The EGO can be seen whereby it seeks to hold an individual together as a whole, for example the EGO works with the ID. The EGO utilises many different areas of a person’s psychological functions that includes; the memory, the thoughts
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) who was brought up in a Jewish family had lived in Austria and was notably known as the founding father of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories. The thesis behind the two theories mentioned previously, were based upon the belief of the influence experienced by a person’s internal drives of an individual’s emotions towards their behaviour. This would then be where Freud’s focus and contribution of his study of the psychology of human behaviour developed from his concept of the ‘dynamic unconscious’.
Freud felt that within a person’s unconscious mind there was a great drive for a person to seek pleasure, he referred this as the ‘libido’(Module 2 ; Roth, 2001). In Freud’s theory he divided the mind, known as the PSYCHE, Freud divided this in to three parts. The first part would be referred as the unconscious; second part known as the preconscious and lastly the conscious. However these can be referred by another terminology which is; the ID, EGO and the SUPEREGO (Module, 2).
The ID can be characterised as the part where the mental processing strives the initiation of a person’s behaviour, the end result would be the satisfaction of the human beings needs met. These needs would be to somewhat as similar as to the Maslow Hierarchy – physiological needs, which includes; air, water, food, warmth, shelter, sex etc (Wahba and Bridgewell, 1976).
The EGO can be seen whereby it seeks to hold an individual together as a whole, for example the EGO works with the ID. The EGO utilises many different areas of a person’s psychological functions that includes; the memory, the thoughts