a) Sigmund Freud’s, in which he postulated that the mind operates in two levels, the conscious and the unconscious; about his discoveries that impulses and desires (many sexually originated) existed mainly in the unconscious level.
b) Tarcísio Brito’s, in which he postulates that the mind operates between consciousness and emotion. When we elevate the consciousness, we retrain the emotion, and when we elevate the emotion, we retrain the consciousness; about his imaginary graphic, which show that the balance corresponds to ≥ 50 % of consciousness and ≤ 50% of emotion. The unbalance happens the opposite.
2006-10-06 05:50:48 · 6 answers · asked by britotarcisio 6 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
is this like an essay question ur teacher has set and ur looking for some good theories to put in it??!
2006-10-06 05:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by Caroline N 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Highly critically. I would say that either theory can get seriously in the way of helping people. Freud's has the "advantage" that thousands of people have tried to work with it (psychiatrists and psychoanalysts) and it has never convinced. As for what you say about Brito (who?), one phrase makes a great deal of sense: "when we elevate the consciousness, we re-train the emotion". But I would not travel at all with his two 50%s, a hypothesis which I suspect is 100% untested, let alone unproven.
The workings of our minds, BTW, can be subdivided into thoughts, physical sensations, judgments, and emotions. In the world population as a whole these may be divided about evenly, but in any individual the usage is usually skewed towards one of these four.
2006-10-10 09:33:50 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two theories sound pretty similar to me. I think they only really differ on semantics and the qualitative/quantitative approaches. It seems to me that Freud's concept of the conscious is similar to Brito's consciousness and that Freud's unconscious is similar to the Brito's emotion. Freud argued that we operate on a mostly unconscious level unless motivated to to otherwise, and Brito similarly says that the use of the consciousness restrains the emotion and vice-versa.
If you are asking this question as research for a class, I'd recommend that you seek more reliable sources than yahoo answers.
2006-10-06 13:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Caroline. the only correct answer for your essay is how YOU evaluate them, not how the Yahoo population evaluates them. Read the theories yourself and evaluate them yourself, with the sort of courses which ask these questions there is usually no wrong answer just your answer. Or are you asking how in the world do you evaluate theories like these, the simple answer is to read the theories until you understand what the author of them was trying to communicate to the reader, then basically give you opinion on which one you favour and why you favour that theory, of course you may decide that both are correct to some degree as they both have merits. But being only a theory, your answer can not be proved nor disproved
2006-10-06 13:06:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freud was obsessed with sex, let his lot evaluate it.
2006-10-08 11:43:22 · answer #5 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not evaluate them at all.
'coz i'm like that.
Sash.
2006-10-06 21:13:46 · answer #6 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋