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Essay on Domain Assumption Of Psychoanalytic
Is Man Inherently Good, Bad, Both? Psychologists often struggle with the question does man have inherently good characteristics, or do they lead to the negative. What makes a man act the way he does? Is it nature, hormone imbalances, or the way he is raised? Man’s intrinsic characteristics can be good, bad or both. Most people would like to believe that they are good. Man is inherently good; man is most likely brought up to be good. Once a child becomes potty-trained, he/she will most likely not stray from it.
When a child learns to communicate, he will not talk baby talk in frustration at society. Because a child knows that he may be rewarded for cleaning his room, he will straighten up his toys and pick up his clothing articles.
All these characteristics are learned at an early age showing that man is moral and kind from the beginning. When a man matures and takes on a job to support his family, he shows his instincts are positive. He may not succeed, but his conscious told him to provide and be positive towards his family. Some people may say that man’s inborn characteristics are good, but other people believe they are bad. In the comic book adventures of Calvin and Hobbes, written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, Calvin portrays the life of a young kid whose propensities often lead him to trouble. Sigmund Freud, the founder and developer of psychoanalysis, also helped prove that man’s inherent nature is negative. (Nancy,1998)
Dr. Freud identified the Oedipus/Electra complex where a child has a sexual attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and jealousy toward the parent of the same sex. This complex shows through unconscious desires, a young boy (after age 3 or so) develops a marked attachment to his mother, and wishes to kill his father for blocking his goal of his mother’s possession....................
