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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As theories i think they are fascinating and very useful when looking back at how psychoanalysis began to develop.
The id/ego/super-ego idea seems attractive to me because i like its 'fullness'... it appears to encompass activities and behaviours that describe a 'complete' person - although i find his stages (oral, anal etc) just plain odd!
Of course children go through such 'phases' but i'm not sure how much i believe the link between fixation at one stage can lead to regression/neurosis in later life. I'm not suggesting adult neuroses do not exist (far from it - i am full of them!), but i think perhaps too much 'theory' and not enough 'common sense' surround this particular idea.
For example, i'm not sure how one can realistically measure the correlation of becoming fixated at the anal stage to becoming obsessed with order/time in adulthood!
Freud's psychodynamic theories are not utilised in contemporary research, and his psychodynamic therapy is the most criticised model of counselling therapy I've ever come across.
The id, Ego, and Superego don't fully encapsulate the social and cultural nature of human development, and other theories of development can do it much better, and much more comprehensively.
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