How Did Sigmund Freud Contribute To Psychology

Freud created many contributions to Psychology. Among those contributions is a famous theorem known as the theory of personality. The theory of personality can be broken down into three parts, the id, the superego, and the ego. It’s what Freud believes what shapes a person’s personality. The id is what satisfies the minds basic urges and needs. It’s the part that thinks unconsciously, meaning it would make someone do something without thinking about the consequence of that action. The superego is the part that is the “moral” part of thinking, the part that thinks right from wrong, also known as your conscience. If your id were to want to take something, your superego would be the thing to make you think twice about your action. The ego is the practical or sensible part of the brain. It creates a balance between the id and superego and creates a compromise between the two. Freud’s theory is something I believe to be a good way …show more content…
I feel that these fixations he believes people get as a result of issues during these stages are completely irrelevant. I feel that these fixations are caused by things the child is grown up around and what they see to be right or wrong in terms of smoking, biting one’s nails, and messiness. A lot of one’s traits, that Freud refers to as fixations, I believe are simply things that were genetically passed down. A child grows and develops new habits from what they are raised from. If the child’s home growing up is very dysfunctional in terms of relationships or a way of life in general, they are going to ultimately be the ones to decide if that's how they want to live or not. I don't see how all of these stages of developments the child goes through are referred to as a “sexual stage”. I see the way we develope as just the way of life and our developments don’t revolve around libido. I see the way we develop as the way of life, not something made into these “psychosexual