1. Broderick Dq 1The unconscious and psychosexuality were a period of Freud’s writing what was started in the modern age of psychoanalysis. These studies helped him embrace the concepts of unconsciousness and universal psychosexuality. Two books that really dove deep on these ideologies were The Interpretation of Dreams andThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Many students that read Theory of Sexuality were confused according to (Messias, E. 2014). Freud show that sexuality is not a part of the childhood experience and do not just occur through puberty. Freuds also view that perverse tendencies are present in a childhood (Messias, E. 2014). These tendencies/ fantasies are a part of development. If one becomes in particular attached to any given tendency, then development for the individual will not proceed in and optimal manner.
In transition, Freud mentions that perverse tendencies are present universally during childhood development. Most of are apart a of childhood development. This attachment happens because of and over or under stimulation during a giving time. The central concept for what Freud that has shown in his essays is ideas of optimal stimulation and optimal frustration. Children develop dealing with these frustration’s and its up to parents to help then deal with these frustrations and turn away from these tendencies/fantasies (Messias, E. 2014). In the psychosexual stages you must find balance between the frustration and the stimulation to not have these perverse tendencies.
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Messias, E. (2014). Standing on the shoulders of Pinel, Freud, and Kraepelin: A historiometric inquiry into the histories of psychiatry. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 202(11), . https://doi.org/10.1097/nm
2. Dq 1 lewis Freud’s psychosexual development stages were central elements during the process of analyzing the development of personality traits, mental functions, action, and outcomes. Although this process could be confusing, these five stages are related to focus placed on pleasing ones erogenous areas as an effort to achieve optimal stimulation in contrast to optimal frustration. The oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages were named to directly align with the areas of focus (Reisner, 2001). The pleasure seeking, status post stimulation of these areas, starts at birth and continues on through adulthood. Freud advanced this school of thought related to personality development claiming that a single body part is particularly sensitive and effects individuals at different stages of growth and development (Stevenson, 1992). My belief is that stage one, the oral (mouth) stage of development, is where optimal stimulation and optimal frustration occurs. A child requires a specific amount of nutrients to grow and be healthy but lacks the ability to independently satisfy that need which leads to frustration and possible dangerous conditions.
3. DQ 2 Denise Huntsman
Freud’s topographical model and structural model are each attempts of explain different functions of the brain. The topographical model maps the level of consciousness and determines that unconscious memories,emotions, and repressed feelings (Ellman, 2018) are all not readily available to the conscious. However, while Freud does delineate three levels, he believes that they have different ways of being accessed and utilized. Freud states that there may be a “Censor”, or force, that impedes accessing certain unconscious thought (Tutter, 2019) but through dreams and other methods, unconscious thought can be brought forward.
Freud’s structural model explains the stages of development from infant to adult. Each phase is met with both stimulation (roughly pleasure) and frustration for not having stimulation as they wish it (Ellman, 2018). Moving to the next phase requires a maturing of sorts to resolve the frustration to evolve. However, Freud does describe fixation, when one gets stuck in phase, and is unable to resolve the stimulation and frustration.
As these two models serve completely different functions, it would be difficult to determine which is superior. Both models are embedded in psychotherapy and strengthen our understanding of the mind. Although both models were not perfect, and were often revisited by Freud, they both give value to psychology , both historically, and as a bedrock for modern practice.
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