Freud Defense Mechanisms and Positive Term Paper

Firstly, a married person with an individualist view will put their own needs ahead of the needs of the family group. If this person is not having their individual needs met, they may consider the marriage unsuccessful. However, a person with a collectivist view will put the needs of the family overall ahead of their own individual needs. At the same time, they will view the success of the marriage based on how everyone in the family is doing, not just on how they are doing. Secondly, people with individualist views will tend to think that what a person does in a marriage is their own business. This includes that the person should have the right to end or leave the marriage and should be free to make this decision for themselves. In contrast, a person with a collectivist view is likely to see marriage as a social institution that everyone needs to respect and uphold. With this view, every person has a responsibility to accept and live by accepted standards of marriage.Whether a person has an individualist or collectivist view of the self also makes a significant difference to political views. This can be seen by considering the abortion debate. For an individualist, the focus will be on the parent's right to choose, with the decision to keep or abort a child seen as being the parent's choice. In this way, the pro-choice position comes from an individualist viewpoint. In contrast, the pro-life position comes from a collectivist viewpoint. The collectivist sees people as being part of a larger group where every individual must live according to the standards of the group. The group's standards have been set as not accepting abortion and so every person is expected to accept this decision, regardless of their own personal opinion on the subject or their own personal decision on whether they want to keep or abort the child......