Differences between psychoanalysis and neo-psychoanalysis in theories and system of psychology
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had significant education in the biological sciences, and was in fact a neurologist. The intellectual atmosphere of the time favored the influences of biological factors as the prime, or even sole influences and motivating factors in human behavior. Biology, in other words dictated a fixed and immutable set of qualities, potentials, and behavioral outcomes for humans. The assumption was also that all humans shared the same fixed and immutable set of biologically determined qualities and potentials. Freud took this to mean that personality development in early childhood was not affected by social and cultural dynamics in any significant way.
Freud insisted on instinct as the determinant of behavior, and focused on the Oedipus complex, latency, the libido and the stages of development as biological entities and systems, and not as influenced by the environment that the individual lived in
Freud insisted on instinct as the determinant of behavior, and focused on the Oedipus complex, latency, the libido and the stages of development as biological entities and systems, and not as influenced by the environment that the individual lived in
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