Sigmund Freud's Three Different Aspects Of Human Personality

Sigmund Freud’s Three Different Aspects of Human Personality Sigmund Freud is a world renowned psychologists, and he is mostly known for his psychoanalytical theory of the human mind. Few of his theories are criticized but most of them have made a tremendous impact on the study of the unconscious brain. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of how human’s personality and conscious develop and work together. According to Sigmund Freud, “Psychoanalysis shocked most of the world by postulating, a super ego, which establishes high demands of personal behavior; an ego which corresponds to the apparent personality; an id, which includes the deepest primitive forces of life, and an unconscious, into which thoughts or memories we cannot face are repressed or sublimated” (915). These three aspects of personality balance each other our; therefore, allowing people to make moral decisions and not rational decisions. The id, ego, and superego establish human’s personality and it is what makes all humans different. The Id part of our personality, according to Freud, can be known as our natural instincts or the unconscious side of our personality. The …show more content…
Freud believes that the id is our irrational thinking, unmoral, and sexual thinking part of personality. The ego is said to be the balance of the id and allows us humans to make moral decisions even though our id is telling us that we want otherwise. Although the Ego helps control the id’s unmoral impulses it still tends to fall for the needs of the id, and that’s when the super ego, the angel on one shoulder, steps and sends feelings of guilt. Every day in society we have to make moral decisions following social norms even though there is that one decision that sounds easier than the rest, and that is when our different aspects of personalities battle and allow us humans to make the most rational