Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory and Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory are two important psychoanalytic theories on human development that could be used to explain the developmental effects of this scenario. In this lesson, we will examine what these two theories have in common and how they differ.
Q. Who was the originator of psychoanalytic theory?
Psychoanalytic theories explain human behavior in terms of the interaction of various components of personality. Sigmund Freud was the founder of this school of thought.
Table of Contents
- Q. Who was the originator of psychoanalytic theory?
- Q. Who put forward psychoanalytical theory of crime?
- Q. Who is the father of psychoanalytic theory?
- Q. What influenced Sigmund Freud’s theory of development?
- Q. What are the weakness of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?
- Q. Does Freud’s theory organize data?
- Q. What is Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
- Q. What aspects of Erikson’s theory are most important for students to understand?
Q. Who put forward psychoanalytical theory of crime?
Sigmund Freud
Q. Who is the father of psychoanalytic theory?
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): father of psychoanalysis.
Q. What influenced Sigmund Freud’s theory of development?
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, inspired by his colleague Josef Breuer, posited that neuroses had their origins in deeply traumatic experiences that had occurred in the patient’s past. He believed that the original occurrences had been forgotten and hidden from consciousness.
Q. What are the weakness of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?
Freud suggests that all thoughts, behaviours and emotions are determined by our childhood experiences and unconscious mental processes. This is a weakness because it suggests we have no conscious free will over our behaviour, leaving little room for the idea of personal agency (i.e., free will).
Q. Does Freud’s theory organize data?
More scientifically focused psychologists have long rejected the purely conjectural and theoretical nature of Freud’s ideas. As they say – where’s the data?! Surprisingly, there is data, not on the theory as a whole, but on specific aspects of the theory.
Q. What is Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
Freud proposed that personality development in childhood takes place during five psychosexual stages, which are the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. During each stage sexual energy (libido) is expressed in different ways and through different parts of the body.
Q. What aspects of Erikson’s theory are most important for students to understand?
The key idea in Erikson’s theory is that the individual faces a conflict at each stage, which may or may not be successfully resolved within that stage. For example, he called the first stage ‘Trust vs Mistrust’. If the quality of care is good in infancy, the child learns to trust the world to meet her needs.
