FREUD IS DEAD

I am qualified in psychology, from my time at college and one of the most interesting people in psychology was Sigmund Freud.  He was born in the then Austrian Empire in 1856 and died in England in 1939.  Whilst he was alive he created the psychological school of thought termed, the psychoanalytical (also called the psycho dynamic) approach.  At university, his peers laughed at his radical views which would lay from foundation the perspective of a child's unconscious sexual longing for his mother, which would create an untapped competition with his father.  He defined the Oedipus complex theory, named after classical Greece mythological Oedipus who killed his father to marry his mother, has the foundation of man's innate self.  He argued that this complex defines the young child and evolves the boy towards puberty.  The female towards her father was termed Electra complex theory.

At college after writing an essay on the Oedipus complex theory I concluded a difference of opinion.  I stated that in nineteenth century Victorian period, women were so heavily clad in attire, for child to ever define physical feminine woman, I stated that although the child would be quite naturally in competition for their mothers affection, sexual gratification, though it might create the impulse of nineteenth century intellectual debate, and be defined as Saucy High Intellect by the Times, he Freud had no way of testing his theories, has neither could he remember such times, nor could he communicate intelligently with a child of that age.  My teacher found my arguments both effective and thought provoking.  Oedipus Complex Theory is a theory, within a social science not a natural science.

I did however at the time agree with Freud’s view of the conflicting personality of mankind.  His school of thought defines mankind of having three conflicting personalities called the Id, Ego and the Super Ego.  Psycho dynamic theory states that these personality theoretical entities must be in equilibrium for one to be in a state of psychological normality.  I agreed with this theory and viewed people in this way at college.  When I sat with my friend who I then felt was a genius because of his ease in playing Beethoven’s fifth on the piano, yet quite peculiar social interactions, I would sometimes analyse him in relations to Freud's personality traits, whilst I had conversations with him in his room.

I am not so naive anymore, though Freud's id, ego and super ego personality assimilation sounds both intellectual and finite, it is still the social science of psychology.  

Has it is a theoretical entity and not a physical brain under the surgeons telescope, one can define the id, ego and super ego has basically anything.  The schools of thought within psychology such has behavioural, humanistic, psycho dynamic to name three is usually identified from cause and effect.  This is the psychological nature of man within the auspices of crisis fight or flight.  Mice, are used to attain these by Electra compulsive testing’s, by surveys of hoteliers and rational questioning.  Though with this id, ego and super ego, one does not look at the brain and say, 'That is the super ego and it has ballooned when questioning, or turned maroon red.'  

When Freud was alive there was no such thing has x-ray and he had no way of defining the three personality conflicts with anything scientifically, than that same brain of Oedipus theoretical views of the child wanting to jump his mother's bones.  So though we praise that early genius, has he started one of the bodies of thought within that social science, I am sure that he did not realise that one day David Cameron would be putting people into mental asylums by shouting cunning radical doctrines of id.  With myself being diagnosed with schizophrenia, created in the Nazi labs for the Jews in the camps, because I am a red blooded man with a natural libido for the fem fatal.  Can one man ever have so much fault and repel such giants of terror?  Will integrity and democratic honour ever return to a sordid democratic mob rule?