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What does Freud say about infant sexuality?

Sigmund Freud hypothesized that the unconscious understanding of sexual desire


started as early as birth, allowing the libido to go through stages where different parts of
the body bring pleasure. These are called Freud's Stages of Psychosexual
Development.

In infancy, the libido is in the oral stage, as feeding is one of the only conscious desires
an infant understands. The oral stage focuses on the mouth and the consumption of
food for pleasure,...

What is the transformation in Freud's instinct theory all about? He tells us that he once
distinguished the sexual and the ego instincts, but now he rejects that dichotomy. Why?
He proposes instead eros and thanatos, the life and death instincts. How do eros and
thanatos differ from the earlier notions of the instincts? In particular how does the move
from sexual instincts to eros change Freud's understanding of sexuality?

Jung raises the question: if the psyche isn’t under the obligation to live in time
and space alone – and obviously it doesn’t – then to what extend is the psyche
restricted to time and space upon death?

You don’t need to believe this is true just for the sake of believing, but there
are good reasons for forming the hypothesis that the psyche exists after death.

In any case, it’s better to live a life looking forward to the next stage, as if you
had centuries ahead to explore the adventure ahead. The alternative of fearing
death and dying before your time is up is much worse.

Why should one learn from the past if one is doomed to fail in the future? By
helping patients alter their cognitive experience, cognitive therapists increase
the likelihood of more-positive, or at least more-reasonable, emotional
reactions, as well as more-adaptive behaviour. Cognitive therapies typically
supplement cognitive retraining with behavioral practice so that the adaptive
cognitions can be firmly established and linked with adaptive behaviour.
Interpersonal therapies help patients understand their symptoms in terms of
the impact they have on others (and, in turn, on themselves); they also help
patients develop interpersonal styles and communication behaviours that are
more direct and effective. In this regard, interpersonal therapies are quite
behavioral in focus, even though they do not rely as explicitly on learning
theory as the behavioral therapies do.

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