The role of conflict between innate mental organization and instinctive mental organization on making healthy character with an Islamic Approach

Asadnejad, Alireza; Bonari, Alihemmat

doi:10.22034/psy.2022.13453

The role of conflict between innate mental organization and instinctive mental organization on making healthy character with an Islamic Approach

Authors

Alireza Asadnejad ¹

Alihemmat Bonari ²

¹ Masters in Directing and Counseling, The Academic Institute for Ethics and Education, Qom, Iran

² Assistant Professor at The Department of Education, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran

10.22034/psy.2022.13453

Abstract

Human-beings always find different desires within themselves; despite the conflict or inconsistency among those desires, humans want all of them. The present study aimed to explain, with a reliance on Islamic texts, the role conflict between innate and instinctive mental organizations in formation of making healthy character. The method is qualitative content analysis. The research findings revealed that the basic conflict between those two organizations is a result of inconsistency of “cognitive organization” with flow of “disturbing thoughts”; disturbing thoughts, in this situation, always act according to instinctive mental organization, and the cognitive organization on the other hand often seek to actualize Fetri’s and act according to innate mental organization. This inconsistency leads to serious cognitive conflict and hence the difference of these two forces determines the power of innate and instinctive mental organizations, and determines the orientation of the development in the individual's behavioral patterns.

Keywords

nature

instinct

character

mental health

derives

disturbing thoughts