Neo Freudians
Carl Jung, unlike other Neo-Freudians, regarded the unconscious as important, proposing his theory of a collective unconscious shared by all humans across both time and distance. His somewhat mystical view of the unconscious resembles that of Freud in that he too believed that the unconscious had much subtle influence over our lives.Karen Horney devised 3 strategies for dealing with neurosis. She viewed the early, formative years in a person’s life as the factor that defined what the person would be like throughout their life. In placing such importance on childhood experiences, Horney’s views resemble that of Freud. However, she objected to the notion of the ‘Oedipus complex’ and, possibly in feminist retaliation to Freud’s proposed ‘penis envy,’ came up with ‘womb envy.’
Alfred Adler worked extensively with the idea of an ‘inferiority complex’ suffered by all children and most adults at various levels. Adler seems almost Humanist in assuming that our basic driving force is to better ourselves and that social concern is a part of any normal individual. Adler rejected Freud’s idea of a compartmentalized self.
Erik Erikson is famous for his proposed stages of development, or the different crises that individuals supposedly undergo at periodic points in their lifetime. Like Freud, he believed that one’s childhood has a great deal to do with one’s personality, but unlike Freud, believed that the ego is much more important than the other parts of self. Somewhat like Adler, he believed that overcoming problems drives us towards self-improvement.
The Neo-Freudians, as a group, are less extreme and less focused on sex than Freud. They each seem to focus on different aspects of Freud’s theories and expand and diverge from there. While their ideas are interesting, I really don’t think that any one theory can be applicable to humanity as a whole, or really encompass the depths of any individual’s psyche.
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