Hey guys, It`s Nikki and I’m wondering if
you ever hurt of Sigmund Freud and his theory
of how mom and dad screwed you up for life,
interested stay to find out more.
The reason for all your problems lies in your
infancy and/or adolescence according to Freud.
You might know that since Sigmund Freud is
something of a mascot for Psychology ever
since his theory about Psychoanalysis first
shocked the world in the late 19 century.
But why were they all so shocked?
Well, first let’s start with his understanding
that the symptoms (like your overwhelming
urge to control everything or the fear of
going out of the house) were actually just
an expression of a problem **which the patients
themselves were unaware of.
**Yes, for us that is more or less common
sense now: we see a girl with an older man
and our the first thought is- daddy issues.
However, in the late 19th century that was
a groundbreaking idea.
Some of his theories are fiery argued and
rejected even today like for example his wide
understanding of what`s sexual and sexuality***
Freud believed that humans have two types
of instincts: the first-ones are the self-preservation
type.
That is, when you are hungry, thirsty or that
voice in your head screaming to get out of
the way when you`re in front of a fast moving
car.
Basically they keep you alive.
****The second ones are the sexual instincts
(serving for a preservation of the species)
they are all the rest.
So any instinct which is not responsible for
keeping you alive is sexual one: inclueding
the instinct for writing or learning, even
for gardening.
Later in his life ( 1920) he combined those
two types in the term of life instincts(Eros)
as opposed to death instincts (Thanatos)-
which is the unconscious desire to die.
shocking the world again saying we all secretly
want to die***
From his wide understanding about sexuality
comes his theory of Psychosexual development
which includes 5 stages:
Obedience is Always Paired with Lack of Genius.
- remember that sentence, it will help you
remember the 5 stages.
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent and Genital.
In every stage we (as children) find out about
different part of our body- mouth, anus, genitals.
But not everyone goes through the discovering
smoothly, some* have difficulties, and from
these difficulties come their problems later
in life** for example: smoking or an abusive
behavior.
These problems can be triggered from events
later in life** but their core lies in psychosexual
development.
Ok guys, this was a very quick overview of
Freud`s theory i`ll get into more details
as we go on, in the next video i`ll talk about
in what ways Freud describes the psyche`s
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