Response 5: "Psychoanalysis and its Critics"

I do agree somewhat with Freud’s id, ego, and superego theory. Undoubtedly, there have been instances where we have denied ourselves something that we wanted (id) because we were worried of what others would think (ego) or because it wasn't the best moral decision (ego). Sometimes, if the id is stronger, we do let gratification come before our worries of other’s reactions or the right thing to do. However, I am also in agreement with his critics in their rejection of sexuality “as the underlying cause of neurosis” (GT 239). I also think Jung’s “therapeutic use of word-association tests to trigger emotional responses (which uncovered otherwise hidden neuroses)"would have been more telling than Freud’s dream analysis (239); mostly because I think how we respond to things or how we don’t respond to certain things is a lot more telling than interpreting the dreams that we have. Not to say that interpreting or discussing dreams isn't of value, for example as we discussed in class, the nightmares of war that veterans have after coming home from duty is a very telling kind of dream, and those nightmares/dreams do need to be addressed.