Aurora's Theory Of Personality Development

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Rogers suggests that obstacles appear in childhood and are normal aspects of development. What a child learns in a phase as beneficial, should be reassessed in the later stages: Reasons that predominate in later infancy may inhibit the development of personality. According to the phenomenological perspective, this follow-up, all the problems faced by Aurora, in childhood, as the remoteness of the relationship with the other children of the same age because of her rejection suffered by their excess weight. Also loneliness and abandonment she experienced after age 8 with affective detachment from her father towards her. According to Rogers that are normal "obstacles" in the path of personality development. Since the child learns in a phase …show more content…

This need is universal, assuming that it exists in every human being and that is felt in a continuous and pervasive way. The theory does not care whether it is an innate or acquired need. Since children do not separate your actions from your total being, react to approval of an action as if approving of themselves. Likewise, react to the punishment of an act as if they are generally frowned upon. In this phenomenological point of view, the period that Aurora began to become aware of her Self, it seems at around eight years, just at the stage that the father moved away from her. That 's what appears to have happened with Aurora; the stage of consciousness and formation of self in which she most needed her father 's love, she lost it. Aurora at that time, in its primitive psychic ability to distinguish, introjected an idea that the removal of the father from her occurred as a result of his punishment for having unapproved Aurora as a …show more content…

To draw a parallel of obsessional neurosis with religion, established disconcerting similarities between compulsive acts and religious practices that, in his view, aimed essentially the same thing: remove the guilt by a ritualistic compensatory restoration. Both the religious obsessive as in the main formula would be similar to what happens psych- scroll in a dream - through which the trivial details of the ritual activity become more important, since they are forcibly expelled the truly meaningful content. Regarding this analogy, Freud concludes that we can conceive of obsessional neurosis as a pathological match against religious formation, featuring obsessional neurosis as an individual religiosity and religion as a universal obsessional neurosis. Religion is a big factor in the contribution to the powerful Aurora 's Superego. This is very evident in her behavior when only at age 28 she had her first boyfriend and even having reached a state of sufficient maturity to have sex, she chose not to have this experience. Here it is clear the active role of Id which operates according to the pleasure

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