ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

20TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
A
eugenics
B
psychoanalysis
C
phrenology
D
all of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -We begin with Sigmund Freud, one of the most well-known pioneers and early founders of psychology who has been a very influential figure in the area of development. His psychodynamic perspective of development and psychopathology dominated the field of psychiatry until the growth of behaviorism in the 1930s and beyond.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of Freud’s most well-known contributions to the field of psychology was the development of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Some of the major tenets of psychoanalysis include the significance of the unconscious, early sexual development, repression, dreams, transference, and death and life drives.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): father of psychoanalysis 2011 May; 52(5):322-3.

Detailed explanation-4: -Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia (today Příbor, Czech Republic) to a family of Jewish wool merchants. Freud spent most of his life in Vienna, where the family moved in 1860.

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