ok I'm going to explain Freud's theory in the simplest way I could. Freud says that an adult's personality is shaped by a fundamental conflict between a person's desire to gratify his or her physical needs and the necessity to function as a responsible member of society. His principles included:
- The ID which is entirely oriented towards immediate gratification, operates on the pleasure principle (behavior guided by the primary desire to maximize pleasure and avoid pain). The is selfish and illogical, it acts without regard to consequences.
- The superego which is the counter weight of to the id, is a person's conscience. It internalizes society's rules and works to prevent the id from seeking selfish gratification.
- The ego which is the system that mediates between the id and the superego, tries to balance these two opposing forces according to the reality principle, whereby it finds ways to gratify the id that will be acceptable to the outside world. Much of this battle occurs in the unconscious mind.
Now, if we're going to depend on Freud's theory to explain differences in human behavior, we could safely say that in Western societies the ID is dominant while in our society (Eastern) the superego is dominant. I will not get into deeper details concerning Freud's theory as I do not necessarily agree with everything he says (I do agree with what I've mentioned above). But he actually goes to the extent of saying that
everything we do stems from a basic intrinsic sexual need/desire. He goes as far as saying that the newborn's act of breast feeding is actually a kind of sexual expression. The way I see it, that's bullshit. I do believe though that sex is one of the most dominant (if not the most) human needs.
P.S: The same concept can be found in the heavenly religions but I won't get into details of that. The point is simply: animals are made up of physical needs only, while angels are made up of spiritual needs only. Humans are a mix-up of both, but those who prevent their physical needs from dominating their behavior usually go to heaven, while on the other hand, those who let their physical/animalistic needs dominate their behavior are sent to hell.
kareem_nasser wroteThere is a scary number of women in the Arab world who fake orgasm.
How do you know? Do you have any reliable and credible statistics?