Out of all the psychological theorists Sigmund Freud 's ideas about the unconscious mind and psychoanalysis are what explains my personality. Freud 's theories on dreams, the id,ego,superego, thanatos and eros, and the unconscious mind all explain my personality better than any other theory to be published. Freud 's work and theory on dreams described my personality very well. Freud believed that dreams were not just random pictures that we saw in our heads while we slept. He believed that the function of dreams is to preserve sleep by representing as fulfilled wishes that would otherwise awaken the dreamer. Freud claimed that dreams were a way that your unconscious mind manifested its repressed wishes and desires. A general example of this
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In his essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” Freud hypothesised that people are driven by two different kinds of desire. A life drive which involves survival,hunger,thirst and se, acts that help sustain or create life. The death drive is the polar opposite of the life drive, it regards behavior that is destructive to oneself and to others. According to Freud these two drives are on a spectrum and every person has a death drive or a life drive regardless of how they act. Their actions determine how much of each drive is present in their unconscious mind. This theory is very good at explaining personality. In my case I derive a lot of pleasure from helping others and creating things. I would rather use a knife to carve something into a tree then use it to inflict harm on other species. Although sometimes self destructive activities do give me a rush like driving way too fast or jumping off of tall objects. This shows that while I do have a death drive in my it is not nearly as prevalent in my personality then my life drive …show more content…
His essay “The Psychopathy of Everyday Life” delves into the idea that seemingly unimportant mishaps in people 's lives like a slip of the tongue,writing the wrong word down or zoning out are not random are actually a reflection of one 's mind. The essay also implies that all people have mild neurosis whether they can identify it or not . This theory explains more about my personality then I originally thought it would. I frequently find myself going off on in depth tangents about topics that I had not placed much thought into lately. This often occurs when i 'm having an in depth conversation with a person and an unimportant topic will come up that is unrelated to the conversation and I will spend 5 minutes raving about it. This explains that these tangents are not just random thoughts but actually a reflection of my unconscious
In his essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” Freud hypothesised that people are driven by two different kinds of desire. A life drive which involves survival,hunger,thirst and se, acts that help sustain or create life. The death drive is the polar opposite of the life drive, it regards behavior that is destructive to oneself and to others. According to Freud these two drives are on a spectrum and every person has a death drive or a life drive regardless of how they act. Their actions determine how much of each drive is present in their unconscious mind. This theory is very good at explaining personality. In my case I derive a lot of pleasure from helping others and creating things. I would rather use a knife to carve something into a tree then use it to inflict harm on other species. Although sometimes self destructive activities do give me a rush like driving way too fast or jumping off of tall objects. This shows that while I do have a death drive in my it is not nearly as prevalent in my personality then my life drive …show more content…
His essay “The Psychopathy of Everyday Life” delves into the idea that seemingly unimportant mishaps in people 's lives like a slip of the tongue,writing the wrong word down or zoning out are not random are actually a reflection of one 's mind. The essay also implies that all people have mild neurosis whether they can identify it or not . This theory explains more about my personality then I originally thought it would. I frequently find myself going off on in depth tangents about topics that I had not placed much thought into lately. This often occurs when i 'm having an in depth conversation with a person and an unimportant topic will come up that is unrelated to the conversation and I will spend 5 minutes raving about it. This explains that these tangents are not just random thoughts but actually a reflection of my unconscious