They are culturally influenced. Psychoanalysis, for example, arose out of the clinical situation where the chief interest was to study patients, to understand psychiatric illnesses. In using such a theory to study a society that classifies human behavior differently, you should be careful lest you end up classifying people wrongly. But theories are indispensable as long as we understand their limitations and the contexts in which their concepts arose. To a certain extent, psychoanalysis helped me explain certain phenomena in my research.
Aggressive behavior is an area that psychoanalysis talks about.
But they could not pin down the nature of this power because they could not see it. This behavior of witch-hunting caused by fear of the unknown is a behavior most appropriately explained by psychoanalysis. That is how far the psychoanalytic explanation could go. It's like an apple. But, an apple that is not on an apple tree or in a bowl, a bowl on a table, a table in a house, a house in a certain locality, is not an apple but an imagination.