Veco

Veco believed in Metaphysics: the world progresses in cycles.

This can be seen today through the trends in fashion, as trends progress in cycles.

The fashion cycle of Denim.

Karl Marx

Born in Germany.

Marx lived in a time where scientific reason became more prominent then faith.

Marx also believed in materialism: The world creates you and the world is made up of solid things.

Marx beliefs on society was that classes did not occur naturally, instead classes were the result of economic condition.

Marx saw ideology as a system of beliefs, which the ruling class had convinced the working class to believe.

Child Psychosexual Stage

Freud believes that as a child we pass through three different Psychosexual stages, Oral, Anal, and Phallic. If the child faces issues within each phase issues can carry through into adult hood.

Oral stage: Children gain comfort from breast-feeding.
Problems include over dependancy and oral fixations such a drinking, smoking, and nail biting.

Anal stage: Potty training, this is when children gain control over their bodies.
Problems include becoming explusive, wasteful and destructive.

Phallic stage: This is the last stage, where children (aged three to six) become aware of their own bodies and the bodies of others around them. Children become aware of the physics differences between females and males.
Problems include fixation on the Phallic stage, recklessness, self assuredness, and narcism. Children can also gain penis envy.

The Structure of the Mind

The unconscious. This is where fears needs and desires reside.

The pre conscious. This is where memories reside.

The conscious. This is where thoughts and perception reside.

Sigmund Frued

Sigmund Frued (1856-1939)

Frued believed in science, particularly the mechanics of the mind.