Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology and psychotherapy, was a Jewish Austrian medical doctor who lived from 1856-1939. Because of the invasion during First World War, he leaves Austria and spends his last years of life in London. Freud begins his career as a research neurologist. Over the time, he gradually moves into the practice of psychiatry. Funder (2016) states that Freud’s greatest contribution to psychotherapy was ‘’the talking cure’’ (Funder, 2016, p.352). It was absurd for that specific time that someone states how talking actually helps solving personal problems. Moreover, his view of human is very pessimistic and at best neutral. According to Tan (2011) Freud has deterministic view, in which all human actions and behaviors are
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According to Funder (2016) Freud’s psychosexual stages are ‘’the story of how life energy, libido, becomes invested and then redirected over an individual’s early years (Funder, 2016, p. 361). Freud believed that the personality development of an individual is pretty much completed by ages five or six. This biologically based theory has five stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stage. His theory was focusing on the flow of libido energy through individual’s development. Tan (2011) states that oral, anal and phallic stages occur by age of five or six, and after that latency stage comes, which last for about six years. At the end the genital stage occurs around the onset of puberty (Tan, 2011, p.42). Once again there is a huge emphasis on the sexual drive which is central idea here. Physically speaking, these sexual drives are experienced in different parts of the body, but they all peak genital area. If a person experiences any kind of traumatic event in any of these stages of development, it may result in an individual being more vulnerable to stress and crises later in life (Tan, 2011, …show more content…
At the end of his life, Freud dies friendless, miserable and probably sad and lonely. Despite of his greatness, role of the father, and founder of keystone for modern psychology, I wouldn’t like to die the way he did. On the other hand, there’s a person called Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl, Jewish author-psychoanalyst, ended in death camp of Auschwitz in Germany during the Second World War and Hitler’s occupation. Moreover, his pregnant wife and parents were killed while they were all in the death camp. How do you live after that? Frankl decides to give his life to people around him, to give them his food, his clothes, and to treat people with suicidal thoughts. Over the years he becomes well known for his good deeds and kindness. During his organization in Auschwitz, there was only one suicide in the record books of Auschwitz. Viktor Frankl decided to do just opposite of what Sigmund Freud did and instead of avoiding pain and seeking for pleasure; Frankl exposed himself to pain and suffering in order to help others. In the end, Sigmund Freud was a ‘’self-admitted godless man’’ according to Peace (2009) (Peace, 2009, p.7). He thought that he can find all the possible answers about our deep thoughts and memories, but he obviously didn’t realize that only God can accurately search and know about our
According to Funder (2016) Freud’s psychosexual stages are ‘’the story of how life energy, libido, becomes invested and then redirected over an individual’s early years (Funder, 2016, p. 361). Freud believed that the personality development of an individual is pretty much completed by ages five or six. This biologically based theory has five stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stage. His theory was focusing on the flow of libido energy through individual’s development. Tan (2011) states that oral, anal and phallic stages occur by age of five or six, and after that latency stage comes, which last for about six years. At the end the genital stage occurs around the onset of puberty (Tan, 2011, p.42). Once again there is a huge emphasis on the sexual drive which is central idea here. Physically speaking, these sexual drives are experienced in different parts of the body, but they all peak genital area. If a person experiences any kind of traumatic event in any of these stages of development, it may result in an individual being more vulnerable to stress and crises later in life (Tan, 2011, …show more content…
At the end of his life, Freud dies friendless, miserable and probably sad and lonely. Despite of his greatness, role of the father, and founder of keystone for modern psychology, I wouldn’t like to die the way he did. On the other hand, there’s a person called Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl, Jewish author-psychoanalyst, ended in death camp of Auschwitz in Germany during the Second World War and Hitler’s occupation. Moreover, his pregnant wife and parents were killed while they were all in the death camp. How do you live after that? Frankl decides to give his life to people around him, to give them his food, his clothes, and to treat people with suicidal thoughts. Over the years he becomes well known for his good deeds and kindness. During his organization in Auschwitz, there was only one suicide in the record books of Auschwitz. Viktor Frankl decided to do just opposite of what Sigmund Freud did and instead of avoiding pain and seeking for pleasure; Frankl exposed himself to pain and suffering in order to help others. In the end, Sigmund Freud was a ‘’self-admitted godless man’’ according to Peace (2009) (Peace, 2009, p.7). He thought that he can find all the possible answers about our deep thoughts and memories, but he obviously didn’t realize that only God can accurately search and know about our