Overly punitive parenting produces an internal conflict that fuels later scapegoating

Evidence

Freud believed that frustration and guilt are the inevitable consequences of society’s (necessary) restrictions of individuals’ instinctual drives, most prominently for sex and aggression, which are collectively labeled as the id. To avoid social chaos, people must be socialized (predominantly by their parents) to restrict their natural impulses and to redirect them in socially approved ways. These parental and societal strictures become internalized, creating the superego, the individual’s conscience, which strives to enforce good behavior. Thus an overly punitive upbringing guarantees continuing conflicts between a highly restrictive superego and the instinctual drives of the id. The superego (with limited success) attempts to repress even simple awareness of the id’s unacceptable impulses, resulting in frustration, guilt, and aggressive feelings that need to be vented, setting the stage for scapegoating. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1562

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Authoritarian parenting produces children unable to manage aggression or form intimate bonds — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1779; Childhood violence yields its effects only later when triggered by place. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 542