On Mar 24, 2:43 pm, tod
...@yahoo.se wrote:
> Hi! What characteristics should a human have to fully function
> according to psychoanalytic theory (Freud)?
Absence of neurosis. Psychoanalytic therapy has as a purpose to cure
neurosis. It should also be absence of psychosis, but psychoanalysis
can't do much for psychotics, as they are broken away from reality.
Freud stresses the importance of childhood and the way in which
infantile sexuality phases are surmounted, up to the surmounting of
the Oedipus complex which takes place at around 6 years of age.
Children should by then have switched from the opposite sex parent as
love object to opposite sex peers as love objects and then they enter
the latency phase, till around 12 years of age, when puberty starts.
Problems may arise during these stages which have consequences on
later life, puberty, adolescence and adulthood and the way people
relate to the opposite sex, the way they choose their partner, but
also on relations with other persons.
The main pathway to the unconscious -whose importance is stressed by
Freudian theory- are dreams.
Of course there's a lot more to be said on this subject.
