They both studied different ideas, and preached different views about how our mind functioned. While Maslow focused on the humanistic aspect of our personality, Jung focused on the psychoanalytic aspect. However, they were both inspired by two great people. Carl Jung was deeply influenced by Sigmund Freud who happens to be the father of psychoanalysis. Though he dismissed Freudian theory that stated that human personality was defined by their sexual drive and desires, he established that we have 2 states of unconscious.
He believed sexual energy that was fixated or stuck was the cause of most psychological problems. One of his most debated ideas related to the unconscious mind involve Freud’s theories on infantile sexuality. Children were not exempt from the human body’s desire for sexual pleasure and an unresolved conflict in a sexual development stage in childhood could lead to neurosis for the rest of one’s life. This theory is revolutionary because Freud is the first to ever speculate about the normalcy of childhood sexual impulses (Hall, 1954). More importantly, out of this theory was where Freud developed his concept of the Oedipus and Electra complexes.
This convinced him to seek a new career in clinical psychology. After being awarded a PhD in clinical Psychology from Columbia and having published articles (prior to his PHD) he came to believe that psychoanalysis was the deepest and most effective form of therapy. However after personal analysis and supervision by Richard Hulbeck, Ellis;s belief in psychoanalysis was beginning to wane. By 1953 Ellis was referring to himself as a rational therapist. He now championed a new more active and directive type of psychotherapy which he refereed to as Rational Therapy (RT).
The evidence provided to Freud was dated back to when Hans was three Hans had a high interest in his penis, which he referred to as his widdler. Hans obtain much pleasure from touching his penis as well as Hans became preoccupied with the penises of others. Hans’s mother began to make threats about his touching his penis, which was considered inappropriate. At this point Hans began to have a fear of experiencing castration by a doctor, which were the threats his mother made if he did not stop touching his penis. The next infatuation was whether or not his mother had a penis or not.
The state of conscious that is most involved in controlling behavior is the ego, as it serves as the mediator between the id and the super ego. According to Freudian theory Steve would not be aware of why he interacts with women on only a sexual basis, because he is acting a lot from his unconscious id instincts. 3.) The type of Freudian psychic energy that motivates Steve’s relationships with women is libido, which can become attached to an object known
There are many times in the novel when Huxley replaces Ford with Freud, which is also a major symbolic figure. Freud’s theories go hand in hand with the novel, “from the moment of birth the infant is driven in his actions by the desire for bodily or sexual pleasures” (http://www.iep.umt.edu). Most of Freud’s experiments were directed toward how the human mind develops, and more directly how the sexual mind develops. Freud was convinced that the majority of human actions were based off of sexual desires and fantasies. Freud is well known for his theory on a mother and her son, or the Oedipus Complex.
The Psychoanalysis Perspective Abstract. Sigmund Freud, the Father of Personality Psychology, highlights many theories in his writings. Most noted in this paper was the Psychoanalytic Perspective, which gives an in-depth view of determinism, the importance of conflict, early experience, infantile sexuality, and most illustrious the importance of unconscious motivation. This theory assumed that there exist three levels of consciousness in which the human mind functions. People did not come to accept his theory at first, but after much testing it was proven mostly valid and reliable.
After this, the two men became close friends and studied and worked together for several years. In 1912 the two men separated mostly because they could not agree on the theory of the unconscious mind and religion. Jung believed that Freud was too focused on sexuality as a motivating force and that his theory of the unconscious was too negative and limited. While Freud believed that the unconscious was where we kept all sexual repression, Jung believed that there was also creativeness that could be found in the unconscious. After the split, Jung went on to develop his own school of thought called analytical psychology.
Three examples of his theories include, Oedipal Complex, the Trio (Id, ego, superego) and his theories on dreams that were discussed in his book, “The Interpretation of Dreams.” The Oedipal Complex is a child’s sexual interest in his or her opposite sex parent, typically resolved through identification with the same-sex parent. This theory goes on to claim that sons gain emotional and sexual attraction to their mother while also feeling anger towards their father (Feldman, 2011, G-6). When Freud published his theories, he “shocked the world by claiming that even infants had a sex drive and that, as in the Oedipus Complex, little boys became sexually fixated on their own mother, while viewing their fathers as hated sexual rivals to be defeated or killed off” (Sigmund Freud). Under Freud’s interpretation, dependency and rivalry became sex and violence (Kramer, 2006, p. 86). He concludes that it is the fate of all of us, perhaps to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother, and our first hated and our first murderous wish against our father.
Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Miguel Flores University of California, Merced Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who lived from 1856 to 1939. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna. Though he spent years studying medicine, he branched away from that and became one of the most important figures of psychology. In developing the field of psychoanalysis, Freud decided that sex drive is one of the most important motivating forces. Rather than sexual intercourse, Freud became more interested with the way in which things feel good to the skin.