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(5 pp) According to Boynton (2000) Sigmund Freud's
theory of psychoanalysis has been challenged and
revised from the moment it was conceived. What,
we might now read as outrageous fiction, has become
the fodder of light-night talk shows which perhaps
is damning enough. This discussion will focus on
some of Freud's creative ideas concerning the
human psyche, and see where they stand today.
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Written by for the Paperstore, Inc., May 2000 Introduction:
Personality is still very much in a "pre-scientific" or philosophical stage, and some aspects may well always remain that way. A theory is a model of reality that helps us
to understand, explain, predict, and control that reality. In the study of personality, these models are usually verbal. Different approaches focus on different aspects of theory. Humanists and Existentialists tend
to focus on the understanding part. They believe that much of what we are is way too complex and embedded in history and culture to "predict and control." Besides, they
suggest, predicting and controlling people is, to a considerable extent, unethical. Behaviorists and Freudians, on the other hand, prefer to discuss prediction and control. personality theorists are interested in the
structure of the individual, the psychological structure in particular. How are people "put together;" how do they "work;" how do they "fall apart."
Sigmund Freud According to Freud, the unconscious is the source of our motivations, whether they be
simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to deny or resist becoming conscious of these
motives, and they are often available to us only in disguised form. Freud saw all human behavior as motivated
by the drives or instincts, which in turn are the neurological representations of physical needs. At first, he referred to them as the life instincts. These instincts perpetuate (a)
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