Week 2

After reading through the second chapter of LIFESMART, I found all the psychoanalytic theories very interesting.  Each one of these intelligent people had almost the same frame work of their theories. When beginning this course I honestly was not use to seeing the term psychoanalytic; which was the theory of Freud's development of personality.  On page 29 of LIFESMART we view the definition of this term as the following "Psychoanalytic theory Freud's theory of the development of personality; emphasis on the role of the unconscious" (Fiore).

I can relate which seems to be the most important theory in our foundation of life because it will be the same process for generations to come.  Sigmund's theory was one that we will explore and continue to do so, till the last human beginning on this earth is standing.

I can relate and also reflection majorly on one of the stages of the Freudian Development Stages which would be four, The Latency Stage.  The Latency Stage, shown in Figure 2.1 on page 30 of our chapter shows life in stages that breaks our personalities down in sections.  Sigmund's development starts at the age of one and goes until the age of 12.  Back to my reflection on Stage four,  the ages 5-12 were my prime years to me.. and my mother and father.  As to his figure I was put to the test of developing social skills at Elementary Dances where things started off really awkward but by the time your parents where at the front doors to pick you up... you were best friends with the people you just had met.  Developing sports was something huge to a large Irish Catholic family.  Between the ages of 5-12 we were in probably 5 sports each to figure out what best fit our physical needs as a child.  I was put into soccer for two years as my parents were hoping that I would enjoy the sport.. which I did, and began to play for another ten years.  The same goes for cheerleading.  This is something big to a lot of people I think because sports develop social skills, intellectual skills, along with a large stream of energy.

It is almost as our parents knew of this theory and knew that it would work on us as children.  If you were fortunate to be placed in activities/sports even just one.  This is the stage where being in that activity developed all those skills as Freudian predicted would happen while putting his thoughts into data in the 80's.

As I reflect on this reading, I picked up a lot of information from charts, and bold terms which as a future Elementary teacher, this has been drilled into my brain after some training.  I found this chapter very interesting not only with Freud's theory but the several other intelligent minds that decided to try their theories even on animals, let alone people.

Thus far, this book has me wanting to keep flipping due to the interesting readings that keep my mind going.