The Explanation Of Anxiety

Register to read the introduction… Freud said that there are three sides to the personality, the id, ego, and superego. The id is the inborn personality and is the source of desires and wishes. The ego is the conscious personality and where we find contact with the real world. The superego is the source of morals.
The id is where you generally find the forbidden sexual and aggressive urges. In a socialized person those urges have been repressed. However, those urges want to break through and be acted on. An individual can sense this inner struggled, and anxiety is their inner alarm system warning them to be aware of what is going on. Anxiety however is often experienced as a threat from the outside world rather than the inner world where this struggle is taking place. The reason this is, is a defense mechanism known as projection, a tendency to perceive the external world in terms of the conflicts we experience on an unconscious level. So those inner battles are being waged and we project those feelings onto our outside perceptions, and those cause anxiety. …show more content…
They all causes feelings of jitteriness and can cause physical reactions such as heart palpitations and perspiration. And each disorder is caused by different things, yet each of those things could be traced back to the same inner feelings. If you look at it from the perspective of Freud’s psychoanalytic explanation than the disorders are all caused by the ids struggle, trying to break free and be seen in our egos. The learning perspective tells us that all of the disorders are something that we learned at some point in our lives, through negative or memorable experiences. No matter what causes these disorders they are something a large number of people in the world experience, and something that everyone should learn about and try to