Mental life or psyche is understood as a bodily organ (the brain) plus the acts of consciousness. In The Dissection of the Psychical Personality, Freud discusses the psychic nature of the human mind. He begins by that One thing we know about ourselves is the never-ending conflict between our instinctual desires and our endeavor to resist them. In other words, personality, what makes the “I” is a product of how mental forces interact. Later he terms the region where instincts lie the id and the region that resists or controls them the ego. This paper aims to describe the id and demonstrate the development of the ego and finally explain their relationship with reference to Freud’s writing.
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The aggression drive also called the death instinct, ensures protection against harms and is mean to allow procreation. These two fundamental drives don’t only include sexual activity and aggressive acts but all the survival instincts. Such as the need for water, food, shelter, need to protect own self against threats and so on. In other words, both combined, they entail the drive to stay alive. Hence, id is driven by a will to life. This will to life is unconscious and intuitive which makes the whole functioning of the id …show more content…
For instance, when she needs to gain pleasure through her mouth, she might put anything that is near her in her mouth; say a slipper. This suggests that the id has no sense of good and bad or right and wrong. “the id, of course, knows no judgment of value” (Freud, 93). All of these characteristics such as having no sense of time, reason, good and bad make the toddler bump into reality constantly and get anxiety. For example, she keeps putting a slipper into her mouth but each time she feels pain. After a certain repetition, she develops anxiety toward the slipper and decides to not to chew the slipper again. Thus, for the first time, there is a mediation of the id’s behavior by the reality which leads to the development of the
The only component of the personality that we are born …show more content…
The aggression drive also called the death instinct, ensures protection against harms and is mean to allow procreation. These two fundamental drives don’t only include sexual activity and aggressive acts but all the survival instincts. Such as the need for water, food, shelter, need to protect own self against threats and so on. In other words, both combined, they entail the drive to stay alive. Hence, id is driven by a will to life. This will to life is unconscious and intuitive which makes the whole functioning of the id …show more content…
For instance, when she needs to gain pleasure through her mouth, she might put anything that is near her in her mouth; say a slipper. This suggests that the id has no sense of good and bad or right and wrong. “the id, of course, knows no judgment of value” (Freud, 93). All of these characteristics such as having no sense of time, reason, good and bad make the toddler bump into reality constantly and get anxiety. For example, she keeps putting a slipper into her mouth but each time she feels pain. After a certain repetition, she develops anxiety toward the slipper and decides to not to chew the slipper again. Thus, for the first time, there is a mediation of the id’s behavior by the reality which leads to the development of the