![]() ![]() At best Freud helped in recognizing cognitive dissonance difficulties with prevailing ideological paradigm, while offering an attempt to rectify the dissonance. Considering that the human condition is in a constant state of dynamic development, it would be very difficult to attempt a concerted effort to discover a stable mental health model that applies to all differing meta-constructs. Common threads within the human paradigm construction are present, but as to a finite number of distinct, sentient psychological models there has been little effort to distinguish or codify successful self-social models. What really is surprising is the number of divergent survival paradigms that populate human mentalities. An eclectic approach seems to be a way to accumulate an amount of definitive features, but it will take a few more decades to meta-analyze the significant cognitive behavioral adaptive features. So while it might not be fair to Freud's legacy, it seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to say that the ideas we now consider "Freudian" are generally pretty dubious when not dead wrong.įor the psychological German/European/developed western model, one could say it falls to pieces, with a few exceptions. These ideas aren't often attributed to him, so that most of what is still considered "Freudian psychology" is either unfalsifiable/untested or highly outdated. Empirical psychology has used some of Freud's ideas and come up with reasonable models, like the examples you gave (and pretty much anything else dealing with the "unconscious" mind, like cognitive dissonance). Let's look at several examples of id, ego, and superego. ![]() ![]() According to Freud, these three parts combine to create the complex behavior of human beings. My perception has been that the flip side of this statement is the following. The id, ego, and superego are names for the three parts of the human personality which are part of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic personality theory. Freud asserted that the ego mediates the demands of the id and the superego, finding a middle road that is realistic within society. To be fair, his theories weren't really designed to be falsifiable from the beginning, were they? You can surely blame many psychoanalysts for being part of the problem, but I don't see that they could truly solve it if they tried.įreud was very influential, so influential that a lot of his key points are not attributed to him anymore. Disclaimer: I have no real expertise here, and am posting as much in hopes that I'll learn something when I'm shot down as for any other reason. ![]()
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