Describe explain and justify freud's views on human nature and society? this is what i have so far but i don't understand the justify part. what exactly does that mean?
Freud’s view on human nature and society are extremely complex. His psychoanalytic research has helped him uncover theoretical parts of the mind that we’ve used but didn’t know we had. By the use of analogies he shows the reader what each part does and how they relate to each other. As an unapologetic atheist Freud has also come to object many religious beliefs and how they affect todays society.
The first part of the mind that I’d like to talk about is the id. The id is the part in the mind that uses the pleasure principle. It reacts when it wants something and doesn’t care for anything else. It is as Freud says, the beginning of development to something even greater. In this first chapter he explains the id even more by using an infant as an analogy. As an infant, it doesn’t know of an outside reality yet. All it really cares for is to have his needs attended to, in this case for example if the baby is hungry all it wants is its mother’s breast and that’s what becomes important.
Going back to the developmental part, we go to the second part of the mind, which is called the ego. The ego is the part of the mind that uses the reality principle. The ego is the sharp part of the mind that sets boundaries with reality, though it can have difficulties. Freud first states only when someone is in love does the boundary in the mind get vulnerable without actually being threatened. But when it is indeed threatened by pain it begins to detach itself from the outside world and kind of makes a Utopian ego, painless.