The Ego and the Id

oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Throughout each stage the mind must also fulfill Id, Ego, and Superego. ID warrants constant and immediate attention. Ego deals with reality while still trying to satisfy the needs of ID. Superego deals with what we know as right or wrong- morally. Ego and Superego may reach a decision in what they believe they should do but the difference between the two is that Id focuses more on what other people would think while Superego focuses on what is right…

how personality traits and situations influence behavior and the psychodynamic is based on how an individual’s childhood may influence their behavior. Trump bases his actions and goals on the basis of id and superego. The id seeks to maintain our basic needs and instincts. The primal urge of the id is sex, violence, and to seek other forms of…

Personality Theories and Danny Phantom: A Wild Ride From Start To Finish Butch Hartman, creator of Danny Phantom, Fairly-Odd Parents, Wander Over Yonder, and many other classic cartoons of the 2000s is known for his fantastic character development and the unique personalities he gives to his characters. The best example of his work is found in Danny Phantom, the story of teenage boy Danny Fenton, who becomes half-ghost through an accident in his parent’s laboratory. To quote the opening theme,…

difficult to achieve as the patient’s ego tries to maintain its defences and can resist the therapist’s attempts. Psychoanalysis techniques such as free association and Freudian slips (Freud, 1901) can be used to encourage patients to freely say whatever comes to their mind, without censorship. Dream analysis which is another technique can be also be used. This technique states normally repressed material can enter consciousness during sleep because the ego defences are relaxed. Because this…

More so, Freud also proposed that personality is a make-up of three different components which are the id, ego and super ego. He also believed that each of these components of personality will always oppose to one another. The id is held accountable for all desires and urges, while the superego accounts for principles and ethics of personality. The ego typically modulates between the demands of the id, the superego, and…

When authority is rescinded, evil and malevolence take over. That is the message portrayed while reading William Goldberg’s Lord of the Flies, a novel focusing on a group of grade-school boys who are deserted on an island after a plane crash during war. This theory becomes apparent when the development of the main characters Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, as well as the group of boys as a whole, is analyzed. To facilitate analyses, it is easiest to break the development into three stages, the…

was almost the fate for Equality in this novella and his ego saved him from this tragedy. Equality has always felt like the black sheep in his society and ego plays a huge role as to why he feels this way, throughout the book it is shown through the lack of ego in his society, as well as equality coming more in touch with his egotistical side, and lastly the word "I" becoming more understood. In the society he lives in there is a lack of ego. In the society they control every aspect of your…

Sigmund Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856 where he lived until the age of four. In 1859 Freud and his family moved to Vienna, Austria because of financial problems after his father had failed at making a small business. While in Vienna, Freud had many interests, but because of his Jewish heritage, he couldn't participate in many activities. However, he did participate in high school, where because he was very intelligent, he graduated Summa cum laude in 1873. After he graduated, he…

What are dreams designed to do? How do we dream? Do they even mean anything? These are questions people may contemplate when they wake in the morning after encountering a series of thoughts, images, and sensations that occurred during their sleep. Every person in the world – big or small, rich or poor – has drifted off and dreamt at some point in their life. Many of these people ignore what occupied their minds that night, continue on with their day, and forget what the dream was even about by…

This essay will consist of me doing research on the developmental evolution in the human life-span, the different age-related stages and how this affects the behavioural and cognitive development of a human being. I will do so, by extracting information based on Freud and Erikson’s theories, of psycho-sexual development and the psycho-social development. Thus, accumulating a factional and reflective essay. They understand development as, an age-related life-span process, in which all human…