Freud Instincts And Their Vicissitudes Pdf

Instincts and their Vicissitudes in Sigmund Freud CHAPTER ONE I.0 INTRODUCTION The insatiable quest for knowledge, associated with the marvels of nature, introduced man into critical inquiry into things and their causes, human experience and man’s role and prospects in life. In the anal of history, quest for meaning as a quest for knowledge has remained an existential fact in every human endeavor. Hence, it propelled man’s meaning-attaching trait which satisfies his concept of existence. Philosophy as it were has been the vanguard of such innovation traceable from the time of Thales.

Destructive instinct and the possibility of its sublimation are contained in two letters of Freud's to Princess Marie Bonaparte of 27 May and 17 June 1937. They are printed in Appendix A (Nos. 33 and 34) of the third volume of Ernest Jones's biography (1957). INSTINCTS AND THEIR VICISSITUDES WE have often heard it maintained that sciences.

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More still, events and time have rolled out trajectories of philosophy that now constitute different field of studies. Most of these fields hold man as an object of inquiry. All their concern was to conceptualize man. Since human beings are so complex and mysterious, human behaviour and development are also complex and varied. Various philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, scientists have delved into demystifying this mystery and simplifying the complexities therein.

They have made an incredible contribution in understanding man and his place in this world. It is in the light of this that Freud singled out instinct as the only solution to the mystery of human behaviour with his over-emphasis on sex. Listen to him: The psychic energy comes from the instincts present in the human body which make demands on the mind.

These biological instincts he calls drives, and they lead to the excitation of certain regions of the body. The process is this: the internal excitement stimulates the mind thereby creating a need. In this way, the psychic energy is derived from biological energy because the body and the mind are constantly in interaction with each other. Every instinct has a source, an aim, an object and the tension or pressure associated with it. So, Freud could explain diverse human behaviours from two instincts namely: the life and the death instincts.

However, Freud (1905) overstressed the idea of instinct and advocated for free expression of the sexual instinct which today (partly) accounts for the misconception and banalization of the concept of sex as a pleasure-giving thing, the indiscriminate use of sex which has led to the present day multiplication of sexual diseases like STD, HIV, etc., the anti-natural scientific inventions in the world like genital transplant, cloning, abortion etc, anti-cultural practices like extra-marital sex, pre-marital sex, gay marriage and homosexuality. Morestill, it is pertinent to know that instincts go with their concomitant vicissitudes. Instincts undergo various vicissitudes in the process of development and in the course of life such as sublimation, repression etc.