Libido

Psychologists have created different theories to explain and determine what it means to have a healthy personality. Sigmund Freud was one of them. It was Freud’s belief that personality characteristics should be fully developed by early childhood. His theories contained the idea that unconscious conflicts and motivations in childhood are the basis for personality and that if a child’s needs are not met; it will result in difficulties in adulthood. Freud created this theory, now referred to as…

of sexual characteristics of a male. Females also possess testosterone; however, the amount of this hormone is almost negligible. Testes/ testicles in Leydig cells produce Androgen and testosterone is a kind of it. Basically, testosterone regulates libido, fat distribution, strength & muscle mass; bone mass, creation of sperm and red blood cells. Speaking of that when men age, they tend to produce less amount of testosterone and to cop up this issue, on market there are thousands of brands that…

Sigmund Freud had a Freudian, psychoanalytic approach to understanding personality. Freud felt that dreams were an important element to understanding an individual’s personality, viewing them as pieces of the unconscious. As dreams were important in understanding the unconscious, Freud described two levels of content in dreams: manifest and latent. He believed that “what we see on the surface (manifest) is only a partial representation of the vastness that is lying underneath (latent)”…

In the movie, Awakenings, there were many actual depictions of what happened during the trial. The actual events of the drug trial were performed by Dr. Oliver Sacks who asked that his name be changed in the movie. During the 1920s there was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that spread worldwide. Symptoms of encephalitis begin with high fever, headache, and sore throat. Progression of the disease has symptoms of muscle pain, tremors, slowing of physical and mental response as well as…

Sexual dysfunction is the final term that is used to explain the loss of libido, impotence and any sexual weak point in men. There are a just right number of reasons, their dichotomy of which falls in the two essential categories bodily and psychological. There's no enjoyable at all in intercourse for these contributors; the associated signs are lack of erection or difficult enough erection to preserve the period of affection making. The others fall in the class of anxiousness disease, mood,…

Is the need to be a parent innate, or is it a social construct? Do we want to have children because it is in our brains, “pre-programmed” into our genetic code? Or do we want to have children because the desire has been cultivated and encouraged by our society, by our families, by our friends, values, beliefs and customs? While the desire to have children appears innate, we can attribute this to the sociocultural environment of institutional education, and these societal pressures to have…

decide if that's how they want to live or not. I don't see how all of these stages of developments the child goes through are referred to as a “sexual stage”. I see the way we develope as just the way of life and our developments don’t revolve around libido. I see the way we develop as the way of life, not something made into these “psychosexual…

These are called the psychosexual stages of development because every stage represents the fixation of libido on a separate part of the body. Libido can be defined as sexual drives or instincts. The first stage is the oral stage. This occurs between 0 to 18 months and the main focus during this time is directed towards the pleasure centers of the mouth. Examples of this…

Psychoanalytic criticism explores the relationship between culture and the personal identity of a character and a text. It attends to the role of the subconscious in the author, reader, and characters in a text. The concept of psychoanalytic criticism identifies the state of internal experience meaning it explores how the different states may affect the external experience either positively or negatively. In basic terms, psychoanalytic criticism is the application of the ideas of psychology to…

Fluoxetine is a an Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI), which is prescribed to those who produce too little serotonin, resulting in chemical depression. It works its magic in neurons that produce the neurotransmitter, by clogging the serotonin reuptake sites so the axons keeps firing. I clearly remember sophomore year of highschool as the period where my anxiety and depression decided to rear their ugly heads. I was struggling with advanced algebra two, my romantic life was a mess…