Sigmund Freud- 29th july.

The Electra complex is the psychoanalytic theory that a female's psychosexual development involves a sexual attachment to her father, and is analogous to a boy's attachment to his mother that forms the basis of the Oedipus complex. It was a theory coined by Sigmund Freud a well known pschoanalysis scholar. This complex comes with an attachment for the parent of the opposite sex, and a bias towards them. I do not believe this theory to be true. i believe that the love one feels for their parent is true love. it is the only love free from lust, and greed. I may not be a great psychologist, but i do believe that a child loves his parents in propartion to what they mean to them. i will not be naive and say it is exual, for love for one parent could easily exceed love for the other, but it is not love of a sexual nature, and hence, a girl will not love her father more becasuse she is attracted to him. Psychology is a systematic study field of mental functions and behavior. Though we act in many ways that dont always seem to be righteous, i feel that this theory is putting a perverse label on the love a child has for the people who brought her or him into this world. It would be wrong to even think that way, because it makes the idea of love become a perpetual physical attraction. If an innocent 5 year old loves his parents, it can not be blamed on sexual desire. Even at the age of 15, this loves nature dos not change. Infact it is in these years that teenagers grow apart from their parents because they become closer to their friends. Though i do have in interest in psychology and am in awe of Freud for many of his theories like his dream interpretation, and his research in neaurobehavior, i feel that this one thoery is baseless.

Animal vs Human- 24th july

Animals apparently, so we are told, are not as sophisticated as humans. they do not possess the advancement of a human brain and lack the ability to reason out things. i do not believe this in the slightest of ways. Animals are out in a wild where there prime motive is survival. If humans were set in the wild the way animals are, then they too would act on instinct as once the red-indians and cave men did. Man now says Cave men werent advanced and hence acted with no reason. i do not believe this to be true. when you are out in the wild, money doesnt mean power, so one must act in the present. The truth is that the simple fact that animals act according to their instinct and stay alert is their ability to reason out that it is requried. anials are conditioned the way humans are. For a dog who has been beaten why all men who have come close to her, it is Deductive reasoning to be afraid of all men. It isnt instinct in that case. A bear could see a human and believe he is there to harm and torture his child, and so acts ina ccordance and saves his child fromt he torture by killing it. It might not be the same way a human reasons out his actions, but it is reasoning out nevertheless. Animals too have language and a way to communicate with eachother; dogs bark, cows moo, frogs "ribbet". Humans have separated themselves from animals when they have evolved from apes themselves. what makes us more civilized; the fact that our jungles are made of concrete unlike the animals'? What makes us more civilived; when we kill over money and love and anger? what is it that makes us so special? why have we places ourselves on a pedistal closest to god? How can we say we are the closest to him when we were banished from paradise by him? when i sit to think about it, what separates us from "animals" is nothing else but our ego!

Science 22nd July

The body is complex and can not ever be completely studied. Even if scientists rip it apart and study every inch of our organs and tissues, they will not know everything there is to know about the body. They will not know how everything works. through it all even today the genetic make up of a human can not be determined. The human genome has thousands f genes yet there is scope for more. Humans use only a small percentage of their brain. DOctors do not know why. Life goes out of us in an instant. what is it that makes us alive. And most importantly going beyond biology, understanding human emotions, understanding human behavior. Humans can be studied but they can never be completely understood. They can be experimented on but no situation can ever be the same, and hence no generalization can be specific enough and all humans can not be studied fully. Human emotions are hormonal changes stimulated by our pituitary glands and they are open to change and alot depends from person to person. while a death can cause one perosn to weep it can put another i shock and disbelief leaving them blank. Movies have the powers to stir some emotions, yet leave many unaffected. Why is it that people have different reactions to the same situations? The questions on emotional functioning can not be answered clearly, showing the limit of the study of humans. there is biology, psychology, anthropology, chemisty, physics, and anatomology, yet all put together still can not define the human as sophisticated as this species is.
Being humans ourselves, we as a race have faild to understand ourselves. We have failed to undetstand what makes us tick and what calms us down. Yes we know that our nervous system does, but howdoes a stimulus affect us all differently? We take life so lightly, without even understanding it. We claim we are the most advanced of all specimens, but we still dont understand ourselves; so what gives us this right?