This enables understanding some of the underlying principles of human behavior. There are various viewpoints that focus on important facets of behavior, though each falls short of standing alone as the "complete- explanation.
The biological viewpoint focuses on neurological brain damage as a model for understanding the abnormality and the biochemical processes that have become imbalanced and disrupting the normal behavior of an individual. .
Investigation in this area show much promise for advancing our knowledge of how mind and the body interact to produce maladaptive behavior. Biological discoveries have profoundly affected the way we think about human behavior. However, we must remind ourselves that few, if any mental afflictions are independent of people's personalities or of the problem they face to live their lives. .
Psychosocial interpretations of abnormal behavior, dealing with human psychology rather than biology, necessarily are more varied than the biological perspective.
Sigmund Freud developed a theory of psychopathology that emphasized the inner dynamics of unconscious motives called the psychoanalytic perspective. Freud theorized that an individual's behavior results from the interaction of these key parts or subsystems within the personality or psyche: the id, ego and superego.
The id is the source of instinctual drives, which are inherited and considered to be of two opposing types-.
a. Life instincts, which constitute the libido, the basic energy of life.
b. Death instincts, which are destructive drives that tend toward aggression, destruction and eventual death.
The id is completely selfish, concerned only with the immediate qualification of instinctual needs without reference to reality or moral consideration.
The ego mediates between the demands of the id and the realities of external word. The basic purpose of ego is to meet id demands, but in such a way as to ensure the well-being and survival of an individual.
Soma is used as a replacement for LSD, Opium or Speed which are commonly used now. ... Soma puts the person into a void of all feeling. ... Much like soma now, users take the drug and worship Ford even more. ... In Brave New World, soma defines the way society is scrutinized daily. ... Unlike the soma now, once the effects wear off no side effects are felt. ...
Soma is a "euphoric, narcotic, a holiday from reality." Soma is a perfect pleasure drug. ... Some people are destroyed by Soma, for example John the Savage commits suicide almost immediately after taking soma. ... Soma causes the population to be happy with their fate. Soma also causes a physical dependence, rather than mental, for example when a frequent user of soma, runs out they become sick. ...
The use of Soma, which is a drug, would never be made legal in society. Soma puts people into a state of euphoria where you feel the ultimate high. ... It is impossible to have a "bad trip" from taking soma. ... "Soma has similar effects of ecstasy and acid combined." ... Also, soma would never be made legal, for a number of different reasons. ...
Society teaches one to take a gram of soma, the drug with no after affect, to get rid of problems or worries. When people choose soma instead of dealing with problems, it promotes emotional stability throughout the nation. ... One is supposed to take soma instead of feeling bad or upset about anything, which can distract the mind from other, more important matters. ... Worrying about history or what is to come just creates emotion, and so one should simply take soma. Soma is the key to their stability through unfeeling and placidity. ...
He points out that happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sport, immoral sex, "the feelies", and a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma. ... Living in a soma induced bliss-like state would truly be the ultimate utopia, but every day would just be another drug induced, artificial high. ... Although this is in part due to soma. ... Lenina has problems which when she runs out of soma, she gets sick. ...
Intimate relations between populace have now been eliminated. Soma was another development created by the citizens of Brave New World to let them evade, and forget their emotions. ... Soma permitted people to go into a "daze" whenever they wanted to escape their surroundings. "Soma may make you lose a few years in time but it is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity." ...
The group teaches its policies through hypnopaedia, social predestination, and a drug called soma, which keeps the population satisfied with their lives. ... Soma is the drug given to all the inhabitants of the world state. ... Soma is used by everyone, and can be seen to symbolize the indifference of the people from their own humanity. ...
Lastly, Soma proves that one has no control over their mind. Soma is a drug used in the novel to keep the populous content. Whenever one feels any emotion other than happiness, such as anger of jealousy, they take soma and go on "Soma holidays" where it takes on similar effects of a drug overdose without the fatalities associated with it. ... When one is feeling sad, they have been conditioned by use of hypnopedia to take the happy drug, called Soma. ...
While Soma is clearly a drug it is not seen as one. ... They see the substances that they use as part of their daily lives, much the same as the Soma. The use of Soma by the entire society is similar to today's debate on legalizing drugs. ... They cannot live without their Soma rations. ... Bad days never exist on Soma. ...