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<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>In need of a 250 word response\/discussion to each of the following forum posts. Agreement\/disagreement\/and\/or continuing the discussion.<\/p>\n Original forum discussion\/topic post is as follows:<\/p>\n Sigmund who? For this forum, articulate whether you believe that it is no longer important to study Freud in a course on Personality Theory in the twenty first century or you believe that Freud’s theory is relevant and important to today’s psychologists. Use examples to support your position. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forum post #1<\/p>\n Freud and his findings are a popular field of study within the child life world.For example, almost every psychology class I took during my undergrad involved at minimal a brief section reviewing Freud\u2019s works and findings.Even when sitting for my national certification exam, all of the pre-tests and information regarding the exam mentioned knowing Freud\u2019s stages, in addition to other materials.However, even with my repeated exposure to Freud and his works, some of his findings were a bit difficult comprehend.For example, I still question his theory that children hold sexual desires for the opposite sex parents, and because of this, hold hostility for the same-sex parents.How does he explain the children that grow up in single parent homes?Do they experience difficulty at this stage that, according to his theories, is never resolved and causes difficulties later in life?While this theory may be difficult for me to grasp, I do believe that his theory of psychosexual stages is valid and helpful to know.I think it is important to note that Freud uses the term \u2018sexual\u2019 as a blanket phrase for anything that is enjoyable (McLeod, 2017).For example, personally, Freud would classify me eating a brownie as a type of sexual gratification.<\/p>\n While some of Freud\u2019s statements are hard to follow and trust, I think observing children and adults at different stages and ages would easily give Freud\u2019s psychosocial stages credibility.For example, Freud believed that children experience an oral stage from 0-18 months.Almost any infant you see will be putting their hands or objects into their mouth.Further, infants experience oral satisfaction as they go from eating breastmilk or formula, to different baby foods, to solid foods.<\/p>\n In conclusion, while some of Freud\u2019s theories may seem far-fetched, it would be irresponsible to no longer learn about his theories, works, and findings.<\/p>\n Forum post #2<\/p>\n I believe Sigmund Freud\u2019s theories are still important in the 21st Century. Much of today\u2019s work is still based on his theory. For example, Freud was correct in knowing that we are not the master of our own mind. Modern neuroscience confirms Freud\u2019s insight that most of mental life takes place outside of awareness. \u201cHe showed that human experience, thought, and deeds are determined not by our conscious rationality but by irrational forces outside our conscious awareness and control \u2014 forces that could be understood and controlled by an extensive therapeutic process he called psychoanalysis.\u201d (Dvorsky, 2013) Today experimental psychologists wrote a collection of essays Frontiers of Consciousness<\/em> based on his idea of the unconscious mind. Freud also argued that the brain can be compartmentalized. He spoke on the ego, id and superego. \u201cToday we do not really accept the idea but we do know that brain function, both in terms of its biology and the emergent mind, can be broken down into individual parts.\u201d (Dvorsky,2013) <\/p>\n Freud\u2019s take on memories, defense mechanisms and dreams still tends to be interesting and popular with psychologists. \u201cPeople retain memories of events not as they happened, but rather in the way they are active when memories are being reformed.\u201d (Dvorsky, 2013) In terms of denial, Dvorsky(2013) states, \u201cFew people, including psychologists, would deny that we all too regularly employ such defenses as denial, repression, projection, intellectualization, and rationalization.\u201d Freud captured the educated public\u2019s attention with his ideas of the Oedipus complex, castration complex, primal scene and family romance, all formulated from Freud’s self-analysis of his own dreams and associations. Dreams and associated screen memories were disguised and distorted pathways to the reconstruction of the formative events of our childhood, which could be revealed in clinical psychoanalysis. We still use Freud\u2019s research because psychologists know that some of our dreams are driven by our conscious and unconscious desires and fears. In addition, Blum (2017) states \u201cthe repressed memory of trauma resembled a fenced off foreign body analogous to encapsulated lesions of tuberculosis. This focus on psychic trauma and its unconscious effects manifested in human thought and behavior made it possible to apply the scientific method to the study of consciousness, despite the inability of science at that time to connect consciousness with neurological structures and activities.\u201d<\/p>\n Blum(2017) states that \u201cFreud proposed that the human sexual drive influenced mental life in a developmental sequence. He loosely referred to the sexual drive as “libido” and to the organizing psychological effects as \u201clibidinal phases of development,” which he identified as the now well-known oral, anal, and phallic libido phases.\u201d Freud\u2019s theories of personality development was the groundwork to the development of today\u2019s more complex psychoanalytic theories of personality.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n Blum, Harold (2017). Freud Is Everywhere: At 161, Sigmund Freud is still “alive.” Retrieved from:https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/psychoanalysis-unplugged\/201705\/freud-is-e<\/a>verywhere<\/p>\n