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So long as it is socially useful then anything a person does is healthy? That's my problem with freudian thinking, the sickness they identify boils down to beli
by _8j50 4y ago
So long as it is socially useful then anything a person does is healthy? That's my problem with freudian thinking, the sickness they identify boils down to belief much like religion does. Your belief which resulted in socially undesirable behavior is the sickness they wish to cure.
Where as psychiatry deals with the chemistry and biology of the brain with respect to undesirable behavior. still, the politics of the day decides what is a sickness but with psychiatry you have to prove some chemistry or makeup of the brain is responsible while with freud's psychoanalysis it is a belief which is conscious or subconscious that needs to be washed out if your brain.
Let's consider two very different examples of a sickness. Both homosexuality and interracial relationships were considered undesirable behaviors for which you should be treated and unless it changed in the last few years transexuality is still considered a disoreder (wanting to modify your body for any reason I believe). Yet whether you disagree or agree with past or current designations of these behaviors as sickness, it is undeniable that the politics of the day is the deciding factor for what is socially unacceptable and therefore a disease which makes it hard for me to accept the field as anything more than pseudo science.
Complex ways to call beliefs sicknesses do not seem like a particulary honest or intellectual way of analyzing people's minds. And this wouldn't be happening if freudianism acknowledged clearly that it is a tool of a specific belief system as opposed to a science just as much as religion can consider behavior wrong and fixable freudian psychoanalysis defines social sins that need to be corrected by supposedly scientific beliefs.
- DiscourseFan 4y ago>freudian psychoanalysis defines social sins that need to be corrected by supposedly scientific beliefs A Freudian analyst would never proscribed certain behaviors for their patients, but would perhaps advise them to find ways to keep themselves out of trouble. If we lived in a society where it was acceptable to challenge your enemies in single combat to the death (like virtually all societies in the west before the 20th century) then an analyst would probably tell their patient that they should just be careful and make sure that it was a decision the patient made with a full, conscious understanding of the repercussions. Every society has acceptable and unacceptable forms of violence, which becomes all the more clear during times of war, when virtually all violent means become socially acceptable against the enemy. Also, >Where as psychiatry deals with the chemistry and biology of the brain with respect to undesirable behavior. still, the politics of the day decides what is a sickness but with psychiatry you have to prove some chemistry or makeup of the brain is responsible while with freud's psychoanalysis it is a belief which is conscious or subconscious that needs to be washed out if your brain. there is no "conscious or subconscious" beliefs for Freud, there is only the conscious and the unconscious, which are precisely that which we are actively aware of, and that which we are not aware, in the cognitive processes of the mind. What someone says the believe is a lot less important than what they say about their belief, and what sort of structural orderings they are applying (in language) that reveal how they understand the world around them. And, >with psychiatry you have to prove some chemistry or makeup of the brain I think you are giving Psychiatry far too much credit. You should know Freud was the first person to attempt to create a physical model of the psyche, and he utterly failed, which is why he developed psychoanalysis (cf. Project for a Scientific Psychology). And to this day not only is he credited as being the father of modern psychiatry for that reason, virtually no progress has been made since his work.