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The id ego and superego5/16/2023 ![]() That somehow they weren’t managing the unconscious properly and so the goal of psychoanalysis was to uncover what it was that was causing the anxiety in the unconscious and resolve any of these conflicts in order to reduce anxiety. ![]() ![]() So the idea was if somebody was experiencing anxiety, this related to their unconscious. So we keep them out of mind and keep them hidden away in the unconscious. So the Freudian unconscious was the idea that we have this repository of desires, wishes, and fears, and these are things that can cause us anxiety. So an important part of psychoanalytic theory is the idea of the unconscious or the Freudian unconscious, to separate it from sort of modern use of the term unconscious. So this led him to come up with a number of theories about how the mind might be operating and it’s important to remember that these were mostly theoretical they were based on his own personal experience and the experiences of his patients, who mostly came from the upper class in Vienna which is where Freud spent most of his life. So we’ll start with the founder of psychoanalysis and this is Sigmund Freud, probably the most famous name in psychology.įreud lived from 1856 to 1939 and he was a medical doctor who specialized in nerve disorders and he began to think that maybe some of the problems that his patients had were related to psychological factors rather than purely physiological factors. In this video we’re going to start looking at the psychoanalytic approach to understanding personality. Hi, I’m Michael Corayer and this is a Psych Exam Review. Finally I consider Bruno Bettelheim‘s suggestion that Freud’s work has been misinterpreted due to translation into academic Greek and Latin and has lost the emotional connection of its original German.ĭon’t forget to subscribe to the channel to see future videos! Have questions or topics you’d like to see covered in a future video? Let me know by commenting or sending me an email!Ĭheck out my book, Master Introductory Psychology, an alternative to a traditional textbook: While Freud’s views are often criticized or dismissed today, the underlying ideas of subpersonalities and forces pushing and pulling us in multiple directions remain appealing and relatable. The superego represents the ideals of morality and virtue that we can never quite achieve and this failure can cause anxiety. The ego seeks to maintain relationships and integrate into society by operating on the reality principle. The id is the animal drives of personality, powered by libido and operating on the pleasure principle. In this video I review the fundamental ideas of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious, then I describe Freud’s personality structure of the id, ego, and superego.
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