according to Freud, man is obliged by the harsh demands of self-preservation to suppress his instincts and direct his energies along socially acceptable channels. "our civilization is, generally speaking, founded on the suppression of instincts"(civilized sexual morality and modern nervousness--Freud.)
2007-06-28 21:20:40 · 8 answers · asked by geyamala 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Many people have pointed out that these statements and theories are not scientific. I am not sure if any scientific studies could be done on human progress. I don't think social progress is from the repression of man's instinctual nature. Society appears to progress by fits and starts based on the sudden insight of great thinkers and the look of gradual progress is society's attempt to understand these insights and their implications. There is no explanation for it and it happens so little in history that there is not time to study it. I believe progress can be attributed to only a small percentage of people in society anyway, even if they don't have great insight, and those few people are dragging everyone along, because most people support the status quo or destructive forces. It sounds like a "dark" outlook, but I have an overall positive outlook, really. Be good!
2007-06-28 23:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by cavassi 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Clearly, some of Freud's theories have some amount of truth in them, but they are hard to prove scientifically. It's not so much that they are flawed, but that many of them can't be tested - and thus not really scientific. The social sciences are dubious sciences, a lot of it is art, intuition, and experience. I think a lot of Freud is false, but I do believe in his theories on subconscious and suppression amongst some others.
2007-06-29 04:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by WarmthintheCold 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you except that the statements, made are produced by man's cognitive ability. and that animal's do not posses, cognitive powers, and those behavior are part of the animal brain. Then you may except his statement as being true, empirically? I know of no research which has been done.
My thinking would be that organized religion is the impetuous for man's, so call civilized behavior. (Pain or Pleasure).
By the way Angel B, he also wrote the definitive text, on cocaine addition, and it's cure.
2007-06-29 04:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by All-One 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To a certain extent, but remember how long ago Freud wrote his papers and what his research was based on, sick(somatoform illness type) middle aged women in the 1800's. He has a very dark out look on human nature, very very dark.
2007-06-29 04:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Freud himself said he did science. I don't know if it's a truly scientific statement, but it tries to explain man's behaviour.
2007-06-29 04:52:44 · answer #5 · answered by Analyst 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
his work he done it qualitatively whithout ignoring every strands of truth regarding human as sexually evollutionalize being in which it is a patern to psychologist in attaining solution to some problem in psycchology.But I think this is an attack to the modern ways of psychology he didnt ignore our beingness as existential.
2007-06-29 05:36:15 · answer #6 · answered by preliminary thinker 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. He was just a cocaine addict who was full of it. He was just the 1st to talk.
2007-06-29 04:26:02 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Duh...I mean I guess so
2007-06-29 04:23:08 · answer #8 · answered by Over The Rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋