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Superego
Structural or Topographical Theory
Strengths
Awareness of unconscious motivation
Emphasized important early experience &
emotions and emotional conflicts
Weaknesses
Theory said to be ambiguous, internally
inconsistent, not testable, and therefore not
falsifiable
Not supported by research
CRITICS TO FREUD’S
PSYCHOANALYSIS
E. Fuller Torrey – No more scientific basis
Frank Cioffi – False claims of a sound scientific
verification of the theory
Alice Miller – She scrutinized and rejected the validity of
Freud's drive theory
Joel Kupfersmid – Little evidence to support the
existence of the Oedipus complex
Noam Chomsky – Lack of a scientific basis
Steven Pinker – Unscientific for understanding the mind
Steven Jay Gould – Recapitulation theory
Hans Eysenck & John F. Kihlstrom – the field as
pseudoscience
Carl Rogers – humiliate human’s prestige
THE TEACHER PIANO MOVIE