The Ego And Superego Analysis

The central ideas in Freudian/Psychoanalytic thought are the concepts of “the Id,” “the Ego,” and “the Superego.” Each of these ideas is the depersonalized concepts that Freud used to understand the human psyche and human behaviors. The “Id” is the largest portion of the human mind and is nothing but a mass of here and now urges. It is the childlike “I want” portion of the mind. The next portion, the “Ego,” is the controller of the “Id” because it is governed by the reality principle, which means that the “Ego” must sort out the “Id’s” wants to what is actually feasible. For example, if I am hungry the “Ego” knows that there is food in the kitchen, and that will satisfy my craving. The last portion of the human mind is the “Superego,” which is the judge of the human’s subconscious. It is the portion of the mind that tells you that you shouldn’t do something because of fear of punishment. For …show more content…
These times were not necessarily the brightest of times. Consequently, his theory was fitted to that time and why he took a materialistic approach to study human nature. He viewed human beings as soulless creatures that are driven by primal urges within the inner depths of the human mind. Therefore, any maladaptive behavior in that person’s nature can be traced back to the very beginning of his or her life. While this understanding seems sound, a major flaw is that it is not falsifiable (this means his theory could not be scientifically proven false) and it was highly criticized. However, this theory made breakthroughs in the human understanding of dreams and pushed for the study of dream interpretation on a neurological basis. Even today, it is still is a Freudian goal that one day everything psychologically based will be explained neurologically and our understanding of humans will