Three schools of psychology explain alcoholism using the. 1. The Freudian view suggests that alcoholism is caused by unconscious tendencies toward self-destruction, oral fixation, and latent homosexuality; 2. The Adlerian view advances the concept that alcoholism is a symptom of the person’s need and struggle for power. 3. The inner conflict view is that alcoholism is a manifestation of a conflict between the drive for dependency an aggressive impulses.