Sigmund Freud is the most complicated philosopher we have read about thus far. He began what is referred to as the 'sexual revolution'. While I agree with many of of Freud's theories, I do not agree with his view on human nature that the sex drive is the most powerful drive in humans. One reason is that he contradicts himself (or rather Pojman contradicts what Freud believes in Freud's words) directly after this statement: he says that everyone has varied sexual drives. So, how can the sexual drive be the most powerful force in the human being if some people repress the drive out?
I also don't agree with Freud's argument that women tend to have weaker sexual drives then men. I think that the sexual drive depends biologically on the individual personal (not relating to their gender) and is affected by their surroundings. Saying that women were more likely to get a psychoneurotic illness is unrelated to the sexual drive. Freud's theory may have been more likely back in the early 1900s because people were unsure of what to diagnose a person as, but is definitely not true today because both men and women are equally able to be neurotic.
Oh, and I never hoped I'd get a penis.
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