Freudian 's Psychosexual Stages Of Personality Development

Everybody is unique or special in one form or another and each personality has a theory. For many years psychologists have based theories upon individuals and I the writer will compare and contrast three well known psychologists Sigmund Freud, Alfred Alder, and Carl Jung. Sigmund Freud was one of the greatest psychologists in time he Alder and Jung’s theories were very similar but then again very different. Within these theories we will discuss characteristics with which I agree and disagree with, explore the stages of Freud’s theory explaining characteristics of personality using stage components

Archetypes deprives from the Greek root word archein which means “original”, and typos which means “pattern or type”. Archein and typos combined means “original pattern.” A psychologist named Carl Gustav Jung used archetypes to support his theory of human psyche. Jung believed that archetypes are present in the human subconscious, and can invoke dynamic emotions (Golden). The twelve common archetypes

The film Grosse Pointe Blank is an excellent example of the theory created by Joseph Campbell called The Hero’s Journey. This journey is said to be found in all types of movies, stories and myths no matter where you look. In order to have a complete journey you must go through the several basic stages, which is called the monomyth. The structure has been helpful to many film directors and creators for example “George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, claims that Campbell’s monomyth was the inspiration for his groundbreaking films.” The film Grosse Pointe Blank taps into these basic elements of the journey which are the ordinary world, the call to adventure, Refusal of the quest, accepting of the call, entering the unknown, supernatural aid, test or supreme ordeal and the reward.

Differently to what is thought nowadays, the Oedipus complex described by Freud goes beyond just the son 's desire to have sex with his mother. The Oedipus complex includes the teenager 's psychosexual idea of feeling jealousy, anger, and above all, competing with his father. Besides, Freud’s theory emphasizes that boys select their mother as their principal object of desire, and subconsciously wish to usurp or even murder their fathers in order to gain exclusive possession of her and become their mothers ' lover.

Oedipus Rex, an ancient Greek tragedy authored by the playwright Sophocles, includes many types of psychological phenomena. Most prominently, the myth is the source of the well-known term Oedipal complex, coined by psychologist Sigmund Freud in the late 1800s. In psychology, “complex” refers to a developmental stage. In this case the stage involves the desire of males, usually ages three to five, to sexually or romantically posses their mother, and the consequential resentment of their fathers. In the play, a prince named Oedipus tries to escape a prophecy that says he will kill his father and marry his mother, and coincidentally saves the Thebes from a monster known as the Sphinx. Having unknowingly killed his true father Laius during his

     An archetype is a universal symbol. It is also a term from the criticism that accepts Jung’s idea of recurring patterns of situation, character, or symbol existing universally and instinctively in the collective unconscious of man.

Jung’s idea of experiences of synchronicity included the presence of archetypes. An archetype is an ideal example or model person that others copy or base their actions upon. Jung had archetypes such as the animus, the anima, and the shadow. The animus is expressed as a masculine inner personality in females, while the anima is expressed as a feminine inner personality in males. The shadow archetype consists of repressed shortcomings, weaknesses, and instincts. These archetypes are of the collective unconscious, and not based on people in their daily lives.

According to Carl Jung’s theory, the psyche has three parts to it; the ego, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious (Golden, date unknown.) Jung believed that the archetypes were part of the collective unconscious; this is where psychological inheritance happens. “All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes” (Golden, date unknow.) Jung believed each archetype had its own unique values, meanings, and personality traits. It is possible that people display more than one kind of archetype, but there always seems to be one specific archetype that makes itself more apparent (Golden, date unknown.)

An archetype is the original pattern or model all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based, also known as a model or first form. In the twentieth century, Swiss Psychiatrist, Carl Jung used the concept of archetypes in his theory of human psyche. He believed that archetypes resided within the unconscious, which resulted in recognizable patterns of behavior with probable outcomes. Throughout history, archetypes have been used to display a message or mood to the audience, and determine the character's position in the plot of the story. Just like a hero is an archetype for bravery, a devil is an archetype for defeat.

Archetype was based on a theory, discovered by a man who created some of the best known psychological concepts, Carl Jung. His aim was a theory called 'process of individuation', which is the achievement of the Self-conscious with the unconscious. These theories drew attention to an American mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell. Campbell took the idea of archetypes and used it to plot out the structure within his own story. Also, a story he saw "the collective dream of mankind."

Carl Jung is credited with developing the concept of archetypes to explain that there were universal patterns in all stories regardless of culture or the historical period (REFERENCE). He believed that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species (REFERENCE). Academic, Joseph Campbell refined Jung’s theory of an archetype and applied it to a more specific narrative form.

In Jungian psychology, there is the concept of the “shadow,” basic animal instinct, and “anima,” the female part of the men’s subconscious (Fox). The MMM focuses on using these archetypes and combining the positive aspects of both in order for men to be maturely masculine, which they define as being strong, wild, “reliable, spiritual…emotionally open, truthful, loving, cooperative, and liberational” (Gremillion). The “anima” archetype seemingly dominates this definition. This is different from the stereotypical idea of the “macho man,” where men are over aggressive, and not encouraged to express their sensitive feelings and emotions. Bly, who is a poet, believed that men could find themselves through understanding their own stories and experiences, poems, and myths, which

by those who know him, especially his servant, Sam, who Frodo sees as an equal and best friend. This could be addressed as one of Frodo¡¦s most important qualities as a hero because without his ability to see all people as equals Sam would have never shown the dedication to Frodo that would have saved his life on countless occasions. For example, even when Frodo had turned his back on Sam for supposedly betraying him, Sam continued on his journey behind Frodo only to find Frodo in a horrible predicament that required Sam¡¦s courage and dedication to help Frodo be freed by a spiders cocoon. Without Frodo¡¦s growing sense of a community, and developing friendships, it is possible that Frodo would have been able to gather the courage, or perhaps turned back when the times were too tough for him to handle on his own. Frodo, who is constantly

The formulation of the archetypes is described as an empirically derived concept, like that of the atom; it is a concept based not only on medical evidence but on observations of mythical, religious and literary phenomena, these archetypes are considered to be primordial images, spontaneous products of the psyche which do not reflect any physical process, but are reflected in them (Jung 54).

This paper assumes that Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages in childhood development is accurate. Given the information we have on Freud’s idea of fixations, and their causes, I will explore how societal structure would need to shift towards an acute focus on childhood in order to eliminate as much abnormality as possible from the adulthood of all individuals that make up a society. I will also speculate on ideas for streamlining childhood development, by treating it as an assembly line process. My points will be highly figurative, as the implementation of the ideas contained herein would not be possible without removing rights from the populace. However, we must assume, in the spirit of this exercise, that implementation can occur, and that the theories being examined are accurate in all cases of abnormality.