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Many of today's parents face incouragable children who refuse authority and do not respond to traditional methods of dicipline. These "problem" children may get themselves into trouble in school, at home, or with the law. They oftentimes show a general disrespect and indifference toward any authorty figure, whether it be a teacher, parent, or police officer. For a parent of such a child, instilling discipline and respect becomes a tiresome and frustrating task. Many parents …

…like this, Freud would say that the instructors let their actions be controlled by the desire of instant pleasure and gratification; they were not in control of their id. The agression shown by the instructors drew from a primitive, sub-concious level that could not be surpressed by the ego and super-ego. This agression is a "basic instinctual drive and provides the ego with energy to overcome obstacles in the way of satisfying self-assertive drives (Appignanesi, 152).