Psychoanalytic Theory

A man's personality plays a crucial role in all communication, and social skills play significantly roles in a person's life. The word psychoanalytic or psychoanalysis, in itself, are connoted to be techniques and theories that are used to examine underlying motives or issues, and even logic of actions and thoughts of people. Psychoanalysis forms a critical and significant part of almost all psychology related disciplines and psycho-dynamic psychotherapies. This leads us to the theory of psychoanalysis. This theory principally encompasses some highly diverse research and established principles by several academicians. Though the theory or the psychoanalytic approach to study human psychology embodies several thoughts, works, theories and scopes. The foundation of the same is represented by two pioneering works by Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. Though it is impossible to put down the theory within a few paragraphs, the following is an abstract of my understanding. One must always keep in mind one very important thing while effecting the theory of psychoanalytic, it is abstract, unpredictable, and the discipline in itself has an escapade that contradicts the word infinite.

So vast is the scope of this approach and theory, that it is used, not just in the field of psychology but is also a component of disciplines and professions ranging from medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, history, and well anything and everything involving the human being, quite big, right?

What is Psychoanalytic Theory

Common people like you and me, would be not very comfortable by reading the works of Freud, as they largely relate to human sexuality at most basic social institution - family. However, believe it or not, irrespective of several arguments and criticism, Freud's works are deemed to be the pioneering works of the theory of psychoanalysis and approach. The basic thesis and approach of this theory can be deemed to be follows.

Human behavior of any kind is not mustered up within a spur of the moment. As per Freud's theory, the concept of human behavior is a derivation of human experiences. As per this theory, human behavior is substantially influenced by the factors that include, motive, conscious and unconscious mind and prominently experiences that are embedded in the subconscious. There can be no one single psychoanalytic definition, owing to the fact that is fascinatingly dynamic, variable and very, very unpredictable. The factor of irrational factions is commonly prevalent owing to the fact that, human beings and the society in itself, both are significantly unpredictable and have behavioral permutations and combination. Among the psychoanalytical works of Sigmund Freud, there are two important 'bases' of the psychoanalysis theory.

• In the first work, Freud extensively describes the stages of psychosexual development, where in he deals with what is known as 5 stages of development of an individual within the institution of family.
• The second part includes the study of conscious, subconscious and even the human ego.

The study of these two elements further led to other studies which included the study of desires, trauma from childhood, and several other such effects. This same premise is applied by several modern psychiatrists for psychoanalytic therapy and other trauma relief therapies.

The approach by Erik Erickson, on the other hand, was much different and was more prominently based upon ego. Erickson goes on to shed better light on the issue by studying many human thoughts associated with ego, trust, autonomy, shame, guilt, etc. This theory is known as the psychosocial development. The significance is that experience of the aforementioned theory, always leads to our current actions. Like Freud's theory, Erikson's theory is also divided into stages. The difference is that there are 8 stages and they deal with conflicting emotions and situations. For example trust and mistrust. The wide scope of this theory is such that this approach is also often used, sometimes unconsciously, in certain psychosocial evaluation in decision-making processes.

Overall, this theory, though based on the aforementioned two logic, is vast and the enormous. The expanse is so vast that is actually impossible to calculate or estimate it.