During this process of a child being born three psychological things form: the ID, Ego, and the Superego. The Id is where the libido (center of pleasure) is located. This is the source of only visual and irrational thinking. This only lasts until birth and it forms the ego. The ego is a form of the ID, but isn’t exactly like the ID. Its main goals are the take what the ID learned from the visual part of its term and actually physically find the objects that were seen. After the child learns to associate more with the same gender parent, superego is formed. This is your rational thinking and the center of all our guilt. Think of this as the complete opposite of your ID. Also, your superego holds what is accepted and not accepted in your society.
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This is a treatment that is still used today. The purpose of this is to put all your repressed feelings out on the table, allowing what things are stuck in the unconscious to come out into the conscious mind. This causes the patient to face what they have been repression, and eventually cure them. This was not a quick cure for the patient. When you went to see a psychoanalyst in Freud’s time, you would lay down on a couch and discuss all of your memories and dreams. Typically you would see him 2 to 5 times a week over a span of a couple of years. It was good to talk to a psychoanalyst because they were like a third party. You didn’t know anything about them and they didn’t know you on a personal level before you walked in there. A couple of techniques he used alongside of just talking to the patient were inkblots, Freudian slips, and Free Association. Freudian slips are when a person mistakenly says something else other than what they were trying to say. Such as, saying green in the place of blue. He believed that this truly showed what the mind was thinking about. Besides giving us a good laugh when it happens on Live TV. Next, ink blots are literally blots of ink on a card, held up to a patient. What they see determines what is going on inside of their head. For example, if they see something happening very violent, that could be a red flag. Lastly, Free Association takes place as the therapist reads out some words and the patient says what words he associates with the word that is given to him. Freud believed this brought out memories that had been repressed.
This is a treatment that is still used today. The purpose of this is to put all your repressed feelings out on the table, allowing what things are stuck in the unconscious to come out into the conscious mind. This causes the patient to face what they have been repression, and eventually cure them. This was not a quick cure for the patient. When you went to see a psychoanalyst in Freud’s time, you would lay down on a couch and discuss all of your memories and dreams. Typically you would see him 2 to 5 times a week over a span of a couple of years. It was good to talk to a psychoanalyst because they were like a third party. You didn’t know anything about them and they didn’t know you on a personal level before you walked in there. A couple of techniques he used alongside of just talking to the patient were inkblots, Freudian slips, and Free Association. Freudian slips are when a person mistakenly says something else other than what they were trying to say. Such as, saying green in the place of blue. He believed that this truly showed what the mind was thinking about. Besides giving us a good laugh when it happens on Live TV. Next, ink blots are literally blots of ink on a card, held up to a patient. What they see determines what is going on inside of their head. For example, if they see something happening very violent, that could be a red flag. Lastly, Free Association takes place as the therapist reads out some words and the patient says what words he associates with the word that is given to him. Freud believed this brought out memories that had been repressed.