Examining Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory in Relations to Vocational Choice and Its Implication to Counselling

ABSTRACT:

The article has invariably showed the essence as to why the negatively viewed aspect of man can inevitably distort his quest in making right decisions as regards his vocational choice. Sigmund Freud never looked at the nature of man in the positive direction. Instead, he saw that the way man uses the id component, has adversely influenced the right and proper adjustment of his inward being, using the ego to say he is justified for doing wrong and thus, making reality a case of cruelty. 

INTRODUCTION

Sigmund Freud, a Viennese physician during the period of 1890 to 1939, propounded the psychoanalytic theory. Freud, who was trained as a physician and early in his career, hoped that psychological disorders could be reduced to related brain impairments. But because of the neuroscience of his days, which was in an under-developed stage, to aid his research, Freud turned instead to psychology to explain disordered behaviour and mental activity.

BELIEFS AND VIEWS OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

The psychoanalytic theory holds the view that man is evil, that the thoughts of man are wicked, man is illogical and irrational, the mentality of man is unhealthy and therefore man is prone to making wrong decisions. Read on...