Post by rollerk on Nov 25, 2017 2:07:07 GMT
Psychological Phenomenon:
"I continually procrastinate on really important school assignments; I always delay, delay, delay until the very last minute."
Psychoanalytic approaches - Freud vs. Social Constructionist Approaches
Freuds psychoanalytic approach is very individualistic focusing on the internal processes that cause behaviour unlike a social constructionist approach which would focus greatly on the social constructs and the environment that influences certain behaviours.
Specifically, a Freudian psychoanalytic approach would work towards understanding what repressed elements in your unconscious are creating the tendency to procrastinate. In comparison, a social constructionist approach would seek to understand how the environment you find yourself in fosters a desire to procrastinate.
In the effort to change the behaviour, a Freudian psychoanalytic approach might seek to discover instances in your past where you have not allowed your Id to express itself through life enjoyment for example. If you continually suppress the impulse to self-gratify through life enjoyment because you believe it has been deemed a waste of time by your super-ego, that impulse to self-gratify will push it's way through to obtain gratification in unpredictable ways and at often inconvenient times. If you allow that impulse of your Id to self-gratify expression while still controlling the time and the place of expression you would lessen the likelihood that it would push through at inconvenient and unpredictable times.
A social constructionist approach is likely to look to the external of the individual. Perhaps we may find that growing up, the individual was surrounded by family members who behaved in a manner that revealed that immediate gratification was more important than success in school or work. The individual internalised this "normal" family behaviour and took it to be "natural". Through high school and into university the individual has come to learn that procrastination/immediate gratification over success in school is in fact neither natural nor normal. In an effort to change this behaviour, a social constructionist would seek to engage the individual in discourses (institutional, social, media, etc) that encourage time management. For example, working together with a group to set group study/work times. To become greater than what you yourself are you must engage in discourse with external agencies. This works to help create something that is greater than the product of the individuals.
"I continually procrastinate on really important school assignments; I always delay, delay, delay until the very last minute."
Psychoanalytic approaches - Freud vs. Social Constructionist Approaches
Freuds psychoanalytic approach is very individualistic focusing on the internal processes that cause behaviour unlike a social constructionist approach which would focus greatly on the social constructs and the environment that influences certain behaviours.
Specifically, a Freudian psychoanalytic approach would work towards understanding what repressed elements in your unconscious are creating the tendency to procrastinate. In comparison, a social constructionist approach would seek to understand how the environment you find yourself in fosters a desire to procrastinate.
In the effort to change the behaviour, a Freudian psychoanalytic approach might seek to discover instances in your past where you have not allowed your Id to express itself through life enjoyment for example. If you continually suppress the impulse to self-gratify through life enjoyment because you believe it has been deemed a waste of time by your super-ego, that impulse to self-gratify will push it's way through to obtain gratification in unpredictable ways and at often inconvenient times. If you allow that impulse of your Id to self-gratify expression while still controlling the time and the place of expression you would lessen the likelihood that it would push through at inconvenient and unpredictable times.
A social constructionist approach is likely to look to the external of the individual. Perhaps we may find that growing up, the individual was surrounded by family members who behaved in a manner that revealed that immediate gratification was more important than success in school or work. The individual internalised this "normal" family behaviour and took it to be "natural". Through high school and into university the individual has come to learn that procrastination/immediate gratification over success in school is in fact neither natural nor normal. In an effort to change this behaviour, a social constructionist would seek to engage the individual in discourses (institutional, social, media, etc) that encourage time management. For example, working together with a group to set group study/work times. To become greater than what you yourself are you must engage in discourse with external agencies. This works to help create something that is greater than the product of the individuals.