Sexuality

As I read the Sexuality part of Freud's theory I found it really interesting. I do not agree when he says, "..the sex drive is the most powerful drive in humans." I do, however, agree when he says "people varied in sexual drives." In some people their sexual drives are the strongest and only thing keeping them going. Other people, may have other drives that push them harder than their sexual drive; some people have no drive at all. With sexuality, people need to learn how to control their urges. Freud says " For some, the drive is so strong that they cannot sublimate all of its impulses in socially useful action...some of there people...act out in unsocial behavior." I agree with this statement; there are those who cannot control the sexual urges they feel. These people never learned delayed gratification and they act out on the people around them. These people are rapists, nymphomaniacs, promiscuous people, etc.
Another thing I found interesting about this part of the chapter are the different stages he describes that children go through. I remember studying the different stages in psychology. Reading this I remember that the oral stage is a critical part of child development. It is during this stage that the baby does connect with its mother (both physically and emotionally). Weening a baby early does scar it and results in an unstable adult. So, maybe I was right in a previous post I made; nurture does play a bigger part than nature. If a child is in the oral stage and is weened too early and too late , that helps lay the foundation as to what type of person it is going to be. Another thing I found interesting is the reason he gives as to why women become gay. They try to surface their masculinity in another way since they aren't able to grow a penis. As girls, as does every girl according to Freud, suffers from penis envy, it just seems that these women don't get over the envy and never reach the third and final stage. Freud was a brilliant philosopher; he had many interesting points in his theories.