Freud and his theories

3. Conscious mind
Aware of what is happening inside of you, as well as
outside
This lecture, should be, apart of your conscious mind
Headache from hearing Ms. A blab on about Freud

4. Pre/Subconscious Mind
The mind or information that is just below your
consciousness
It is easily accessible
Driving home and you can’t remember how you got
there
That information was readily accessible, but you were
too busy thinking about how epic Psychology is.

5. The epicness that is is Psychology would be…
While the route home would be….

6. Unconscious Mind
Way below the surface
Biologically based urges
Sex & aggression
The forces we are unaware of that drive our behaviors
Cannot easily access this information
Can jump into subconscious and conscious
Storage for all the information you have accumulated
throughout your entire life

7. Whenever you see a water bottle, you all of a sudden
get annoyed and angry. You are not sure why, and it is
not until you remember that one jerk student teacher
who used it to Classically Condition your class.

8. Id, Ego, Superego
Freud theorized that our personality is more that one
aspect, and is based off of three parts

10. Superego
The superego incorporates the values and morals of
society which are learned from one's parents and
others.
It develops around the age of 3 – 5
The superego's function is to control the id's impulses,
especially those which society forbids, such as sex and
aggression.
It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn
to moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones
and to strive for perfection

11. Two parts of the Superego
The conscience and the ideal self. The conscience
can punish the ego through causing feelings of guilt.
The ideal self (or ego-ideal) is an imaginary picture
of how you ought to be, and represents career
aspirations, how to treat other people, and how to
behave as a member of society.

12. Behavior which falls short of the ideal self may be
punished by the superego through guilt. The super-ego
can also reward us through the ideal self when we
behave ‘properly’ by making us feel proud
If a person’s ideal self is too high a standard, then
whatever the person does will represent failure. The
ideal self and conscience are largely determined in
childhood from parental values and how you were
brought up

13. Ego
It is the decision making component of personality
The ego operates according to the reality principle,
working out realistic ways of satisfying the id’s
demands, often compromising or postponing
satisfaction to avoid negative consequences of society.
Freud made the analogy of the id being a horse while
the ego is the rider. The ego is “like a man on
horseback, who has to hold in check the superior
strength of the horse” (Freud, 1923)

14. The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is
good simply if it achieves its end of satisfying without
causing harm to itself or to the id. It engages in
secondary process thinking, which is rational, realistic,
and orientated towards problem solving.

15. Id (or it)
The id is the primitive and instinctive component of
personality.
It consists of all the inherited (i.e. biological)
components of personality, including the sex (life)
instinct – Eros (which contains the libido), and the
aggressive (death) instinct - Thanatos.
The personality of the newborn child is all id and only
later does it develop an ego and super-ego.

16. The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this
happens we experience pleasure, when it is denied we
experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain. The id is not affected
by reality, logic or the everyday world.
The id engages in primary process thinking, which is
primitive illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented.

19. Life (Eros)
Sometimes referred to as sexual instincts
The life instincts are those that deal with basic survival,
pleasure, and reproduction.
These instincts are important for sustaining the life of the
individual as well as the continuation of the species.
While they are often called sexual instincts, these drives
also include such things as thirst, hunger, and pain
avoidance.
The energy created by the life instincts is known as libido .
Behaviors commonly associated with the life instinct
include love , cooperation, and other prosocial actions.

20. Death (Thanatos)
Freud proposed that “the goal of all life is death” (1920).
He noted that after people experience a traumatic event
(such as war), they often reenact the experience.
He concluded that people hold an unconscious desire to die,
but that this wish is largely tempered by the life instincts.
In Freud’s view, self-destructive behavior is an expression of
the energy created by the death instincts.
When this energy is directed outward onto others, it is
expressed as aggression and violence.