Conscience - Sigmund Freud's View
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- Conscience - Sigmund Freud's View
- Freud tries to explain conscience through guilt and responsibilty
- Freud identifies 3 parts of the psychic apparatus
- 1. The id
- Our instincts
- 2. The ego
- The organised part
- The ego attempts to control the id but the super-ego exercises control over the ego
- The organised part
- 3. The super-ego
- The moralising part of the psyche (ethics)
- Develops at 5, as a result of our surroundings (socialisation) and internalised (the Oedipus Complex)
- The moralising part of the psyche (ethics)
- 1. The id
- Guilt
- Freud states that guilt is driven by our state of fear, lack of ability to know how to control the terrors which disturb us
- Man’s collective guilt about their sexual instincts and their behaviour is the origin of guilt
- Freud states that guilt is driven by our state of fear, lack of ability to know how to control the terrors which disturb us
- Moral Decision Making
- Freud recognised that the conflict between the id and superego, causing guilt, can be disruptive
- a balance between these is needed when making moral decisions
- Freud recognised that the conflict between the id and superego, causing guilt, can be disruptive
- The Post Hoc, Propter Hoc Fallacy
- The logical error of assuming that because one event follows another that therefore the first event caused the second
- “After this, because of this.”
- The logical error of assuming that because one event follows another that therefore the first event caused the second
- Criticisms of Freud's Theories
- Fromm
- Claimed Freud's work was too misogynistic, limited and too focused on sexual desires and the libido
- Puts too much of an emphasis on human sexuality as underpinning every aspect of psychology
- Does not look at a wider range of possible influences on the human mind
- Fromm
- Erich Fromm
- Fromm respected much of Freud's work but also criticised Freud
- From considered 2 views of conscience
- Authoritarian Conscience is the one that acts through fear and obedience of authority. These fears and views become internalised
- Why the Germans were so submissive to Nazism
- Humanitarian Conscience is the one that seeks what is good for human flourishing and enables us to develop personal integrity
- Why people were able to oppose groups such as the Nazis
- Authoritarian Conscience is the one that acts through fear and obedience of authority. These fears and views become internalised
- From considered 2 views of conscience
- Fromm respected much of Freud's work but also criticised Freud
- Psychosexual Development
- Freud theorised that children go through psychosexual development from birth and go through different stages
- Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent and Genital
- Freud theorised that children go through psychosexual development from birth and go through different stages
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