Blog Post #2

Mostly everything we have been leaning in class the last couple of class periods, is all new information to me. I have been enjoying learning all things Freud and everything he did as well as his position on things. While I have heard the name Freud in previous class discussions, I was still unfamiliar as to what he did or why he was even recognized. He coined a lot of the different terms we hear in psychology today, like “ID” and “ego” and so on and was known for being an incredibly smart man. What was really alarming information was, the way parents treated their children. These parents were helicopter parents to the extreme and could probably be considered psychotic now a days, by controlling every single thing their kids did, including monitoring any sexual activity. Seeing some of the chastity “equipment” kids were forced to wear was just insane and more often not, these extreme measures left children completely unable to have children for themselves when they were adults because of the damage they suffered to their genitals. I am glad this is not the standard for normal parenting for the time period we live in today. The reading was more so on the harder side.

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The term phenomenology is introduced and it is related to a modern philosophical movement led by Edmund Husserl, in which the human brain or consciousness is studied through a personal or subjective view on phenomena. To me, this was still confusing and did not know what that meant. As I continued with the rest of the reading, it examines why phenomenological approaches have been grouped with psychological approaches and how both relate to the sociological and anthropological approaches. As the reading continues, it explains how and why phenomenological approaches differ from those the study is compared too. I wasn’t able to take away too much from the reading because I found it to be too dense.