CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Freud cited by Stepansky, human behavior is influenced by unconscious motives which are rooted in childhood experiences. These childhood experiences create a momentum of their own which manifest later at the adult stage of individuals at times as acts of aggression.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud, even before explicitly defining aggression as one of the components of the instinct of self-preservation or Ego instincts (Freud, 1910, 1915a), described the instinct of cruelty as intimately connected with the instinct of appropriation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Freud believed that many of our feelings, desires, and emotions are repressed or held out of awareness because they are simply too threatening. Freud believed that sometimes these hidden desires and wishes make themselves known through dreams and slips of the tongue (aka “Freudian slips").

Detailed explanation-4: -Freud viewed the unconscious as a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, anxiety-producing wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of repression.