When it comes to equality within out society it is not possible since people we as humans will not give into equality because of our radical thinking. Many people believe that equity is not possible since we as human will try to rule the weak regardless of who they are. Sigmund Freud was a scientist and physician but also believed that equality is not possible since our own “Super Ego” will over power us and takes control of what we need to. “The super-ego, which thus takes over the power, function and even the methods of the parental agency, is however not merely its successor but actually the legitimate heir of its body” (Freud Sigmund, 1932 Pg. 295). According to Freud we all posses a super ego but what makes us different form each other is what we allow our ego to do. Some people allow their ego to over power them to the point that they act without knowing. When Freud said “The super-ego, which thus takes over the power” (Freud Sigmund, 1932 Pg. 295). Freud is saying out ego has the ability to over power us to the point that it becomes us. The fact that our ego wants to be control of other proves that equality is not possible within out society since we as human will fight whoever the weak is, so we can be in control of them. Another theorist that will agree with Freud is Lester Ward; Ward believes that men are the type that will control women since they feel they are the most powerful. Ward feels that females need to be able to stand up for themselves and take control over what men believe in. “The change, or progress, as it may be called, has been wholly in the male, the female remaining unchanged. This is why it is so often said that the female represents heredity and the male variation” (Ward Lester, 1903 Pg. 343). In oth... ... middle of paper ... ...we have the same opportunity to survive as the rest of the people. At the same time history has proven that the strongest will get overthrown by the week until there is a new balance of equal control for everyone, but much like everything else one person will want all the control for himself until the weak will try to remove the strongest from power. In our society the top 1% is in control. The middle class and the poor are forced to do whatever they say since the 1% control the laws being made and which laws to rewrite. In order for change to occur we first need to distribute the power evenly, and at the same time learn to work together for the grater good. If we do not learn how to share power in our society, then we can never have equality in our society, and will be left to fight one another until a new power becomes in control and the process will repeat.
Is there such a thing as equality? Can you truly look at a person and say they are your equal, or are we too judgmental? No, as humans we are doomed to see the flaws in others and ourselves. The only way to truly have equality is to either have perfection, or to discard individuality all together. Seeing flaws is the only way to improve both ourselves, and others. To have equality is to sacrifice progress. Someone has to be the weak one. Without weakness there is no basis for strength. Without flaws there is no preference, and without preference there is no love. Life would become shallow and unfulfilling. Humanity needs someone to love and someone to hate.
...le dominance over female acquiescence. His goal is to ascertain that those qualities identified as feminine are used to undermine those qualities considered masculine. Kesey minimizes the mental suffering of the male patients while focusing on the inability of a woman to have control over men and keep it without resorting to emasculatory tactics. This is a social commentary on the representation of a woman or an institutional system that abuses power (Leach; Termpaperwarehouse.com).
...e had thoughts of the ideal man stems coming from the anger about his society who treated humans as machines and animals. Freud was more like a therapist for giving every problem for the human’s unhappiness and frustration, solutions to have life that is more livable. Freud saw the inner struggle which was affected by the civilization and society, but believed that there’s potential ways to satisfy one’s self. Unlike Nietzsche who saw the outer struggle not the nature of the human, who focused more on what the society, religion who led to frustration
There was a time (not so long ago) when a man's superiority and authority wasn't a question, but an accepted truth. In the two short stories, "Desiree's Baby", and "The Yellow Wallpaper", women are portrayed as weak creatures of vanity with shallow or absent personalities, who are dependent on men for their livelihood, and even their sanity. Without men, these women were absolutely helpless and useless. Their very existence hinged on absolute and unquestioning submission…alone, a woman is nothing.
Sigmund Freud is an excellent example of male authority taking charge of a subject that he does not understand. Although Freud is largely recognized as a prestigious man of psychoanalysis, he had many outlandish ideas towards women, and he admitted to not understanding the complexities surrounding women. He clung to gender stereotypes and depicted the female as an inferior being, eternally jealous of men (Lax 394). The weak and incapable portrayal of female in Freud’s psychoanalytical theories treated the ability of women ever entering this new study of psychology. Freud’s arrival to America in 1909 began America’s fascination with psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association was formed shortly after Freud’s visit and upheld a strict no women policy for fifteen years (McGovern). Freud was kind enough to share psychoanalysis with America, expect he made it a boys’ club with a no girls allowed rule and then decided to share his theories of female hysteria and penis envy (Lax). Sigmund Freud’s visit to America brought dangerous ideas and reinforced women’s role as inferior; however, the women of twentieth century America had had years of experience with controlling men and still found ways to infiltrate the American Psychoanalytic
1. The idea of equality when referring to egalitarian societies is used to describe the fact that these societies have no formal division of power or access to resources as other societies might have. That is to say, no one group will have barred access to resources. Everyone will have access to food and other necessary resources. For example, in “Marriage and the politics of yams” by Annette B. Weiner, we learn that every single married woman in the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea is guaranteed yams, which are both of monetary value and for sustenance uses, but some women will get more yams because they have more people tending yam gardens to them for whatever reason. All women will have access to the same resources, and some women and their spouses will have access to more plentiful resources, but no one is denied access based off class or rank. Therefore that is not to say there is no discrepancy among people within an egalitarian society. People can have access to more resources or possess more prestige as distinguished by age, ability and sometimes gender. However, nothing in egalitarian societies is decided by formal heredity. There could be leaders of the group that are in that position because they have proven they are a capable leader, and when they die their son or daughter could be considered for a similar position, however it is not guaranteed they will get the position. And it is also not guaranteed there will be a leader of any sort. The group could make all decisions if that’s how the society works. We see an example ability being able to elevate one’s status within an egalitarian in the article “Parent-Offspring Conflict in Marriage” by Polly Wiessner. In the article Wiessner discusses the facts that the parents i...
One major effect of patriarchal power that Hall discusses is how it denies women to express themselves. A feminist would argue that women have been valued as objects, valued on for the usefulness they provide for men and their beauty. This gives way to why patriarchs would frown upon women expressing themselves. The purpose of a woman was to be a mother, a good wife and, in a very blunt manner, a trophy, an accomplishment that satisfies the man. Traces of such practices could be referred to the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” when the unnamed narrator suspects that her husband, John, is coming into the room, she writes, “There comes John, and I must put this away,-he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman 769). The wife is being denied the right to express herself through writing and she does not question this rest...
...pabilities as humans. This narrow-minded nature only succeeded in making women more and more determined to prove their "worth" to members of the opposite sex. Although Freud was leading the pack of male chauvinists in the late nineteenth century he has since been overpowered by females that are no longer afraid to say what they feel or act on their impulses.
This has been demonstrated most prominently through the lives of African Americans and the corresponding Civil Rights movement. As many of these societal problems have been settled over time, problematic issues still arise today. In John Szwed’s book, Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra, he addresses this concept of equality. He writes, “Equality is another false goal. There is no equality in nature, no democracy, only hierarchy, where you are judged by your quality. Music is not based on equality-the chords and notes are all different. Equality means nothing to God: everyone he sent here is unique. I have to rise above liberty and freedom and equality” (Szwed 310). This is significant because addressing this prevailing issue is very prevalent in creating a utopia. However, the subject of equality in our specific utopia evolves specific to the issue of what it looks like to live a “healthy lifestyle” in relation to each individual. While one person may have their own vision of what living a healthy lifestyle looks like, another person may have a different perspective. Because of this, I agree with Szwed in that true equality is a false goal. We are all different individuals with our own bodies that function in their own special way. What may be healthy for one, may not work for another. There is no set standard for equality in living a healthy
Freud for Historians. By Peter Gay. (Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. vii + 252. Preface, bibliography, acknowledgments, index.)
There are many factors as to why the thought of Freud differs from that of the democratic socials/social democrats, and although they both have differing ideas, they both were being written during the twentieth century. Freud focused on the human mind and how the separate segments of it affected mans role in society. Social democratic thinkers however focused on the nature of the state itself and how man was able to create a better society for the future. The key writer of social democratic thought was Bernstein and his revision of Marxism. He can be said to greatly differ from Freud. These differences will now be reviewed to prove that the thought of Freud does differ from that of the social democrats.
...s. Freud's assumption that sex is the driving force behind everything could also be a product of his times. Sexual feelings were often repressed. The problem with paradigmatic assumptions is that each person grows up in a different culture and some theories don't apply to everyone. The problem with psychology remains that it is not an exact science. Though Jung’s ideals may have been molded by Freud and further critiqued and perfected, it may further be perfected in the future. And such is the arena of science, an ever-changing, dynamic field that undergoes much scrutiny and much refinement.
Freud has always been on of my favorite theorist, He was never afraid to think outside the box and propose something unimaginable. Freud, as a psychosexual analyst had a very unique way of looking at humans and their actions. According to Freud 's theories, everyone 's actions were driven by a sexual desire whether it was suppressed or not. While Freud did focus a lot on the sexual drive behind people 's actions, his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality focused on sexual aberrations rather than normality. The essays covered a wide spectrum of topics including: sexual object, sexual aim, and many perversions.
When dealing with society they have gender categories, which they feel is right such as man and women together and society have a moral issue with Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender they feel this is wrong and society does not take this lightly, they feel it is wrong and they have a different outlook. The person and their gender has contribute to a certain behavior which affect that person later in life. Who idea was psychoanalytic theory, it was founded by Sigmund Freud which was an Austrian neurologist, his idea was to be able to motivates individuals by showing their immediate awareness. Psychoanalytic theory is recognizing as, “the framework for understanding the impact of the unconscious on thoughts, feelings, and behavior”. (Encyclopedia.com, 2017) Psychoanalytic theory has done research and experiment on the framework on psychoanalytic theory which describe in details of what impact a person unconscious thought, action, respond, how that person feels and especially the person behavior of the unconscious mind. The psychoanalytic theory has been, “theoretical conceptualizations of some of the important challenges of psychological
behaviors, and social conditions that we call masculinities are “hard-wired” into males through biology (see Thorhill & Palmer, 2000) and/or the heritability of human psyche (see Jung, 1959/1989; Bly, 1990). They view masculinity as static, transhistorical, cross-cultural, and cross-situational. From this perspective, gender change is either impossible, or it involves the use of powerful force to constrain what is seen as “naturally” male. (Masculine Self pg. 19)