Sigmund freud and psychosexual Development

Masters of suspicion, they changed the worlds view:

  1. Karl Marx

  2. Friedrich Nietzsche

  3. Sigmund Freud

Karl Marx

  • Humans are alienated and that we become the means of production

  • argued that Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory that economic factors, specifically the mode of production, fundamentally drive historical change and shape a society's institutions

Friedrich Nietzsche

  • noteable existentialist in contemporary time

  • argued against performative etc, [christianity]

  • “God remains dead”

Sigmund Freud

  • Unseen forces are what motivate a person

  • All the philosophers before argued that we had knowledge and we have to use it, for Freud believes that there are things that we cant control that affects us.

  • Our upbringing affects who we are as a person

Determinism

  • We dont have control of the influences that affects us such as environment, upbringing, etc. Its determined by nature

  • we basically dont have a choice of what we become

Oral stage: your behavior will show the imbalance of your upbringing, (too little too less)
If you had a pacifier

  • if you had too much fixation of the pacifier you become more gullible/dependent

  • If you had too little you’d be more agressive etc

Anal stage: Potty training

  • expulsive, unregulated so you dont mind going anywhere tending to be generous, messy etc, you lack dicipline 

  • retentive, you WANT to be in a familiar place to go. perfectionist, the complete opposite of expulsive,  you have control

Phallic stage: Man centered stage [always acting from sexual impulses]

  • Male Oedipal Complex

    • intense desire of your mother, as we are programmed that our mother is a source of “nourishment” 

    • Hostility against father, fighting for mother’s love

  • Female Oedipal Complex

    • Realizing they lack a penis and hate their mother for it (???)

    • they think that they are lacking

Latency stage:

  • intense repression as we realize life is not all about sexual impulses

  • we find new impulses that are socially acceptable like sports, education etc

Genital stage:

  • having control over our instincts, formally looking for a partner, dating etc

  • Sexual impulses can no longer be “repressed”

  • this leads to dating and eventually marriage

opposed to kant who believes that we are given the power of knwoeldge and philopsophers like aristotle and socrates believe that we become who we are through experiences etc, freud believes in determinism. that although true, there are some unforseen forces that affect us as well, things that are out of our control. our behavior right now is compensation of our imbalance, our lack and excess of what we experienced during childhood. These things are uncontrollable to us yet have such a strong impact in our personality. This begs the question if we are who we are because it feels as if we are shaped into something that we cannot control