The Ego and the Id

his idea, from Id, Ego, and Superego, With the Id part of our mind it’s centered around primal impulse, desire and unchecked urges. While the Ego unlike the Id is concerned with our conscious, the rational and moral aspect of our mind. Lastly the superego acts as the censor of the Id and responsible for enforcing the moral code in the Ego part of the mind. While awake the urges and desire from the Id are suppressed by the super ego, but when we are dreaming we are dreaming our Id has the…

Personality refers to the emotional and physical environment or surrounding that influences the behavior or character of an individual. Through this, the consistent or stable behavior, attitude, interest and capabilities of a person are used to predict their reaction to particular circumstances. Personality development, therefore, is believed to be coined from two significant and contrasting theories, psychodynamic and social learning theories. The psychodynamic theory is among the first…

Erikson is a Freudian ego-psychologist, meaning that he accepts Frauds theory regarding the structure and topography of personality. However, instead of focusing on the id and psychosexual stages like Freud did, Erikson focused on the ego psychosocial stages. Erikson “emphasized the role of culture and society and the conflicts that can take place within the ego itself, whereas Freud emphasized the conflict between the id and the superego” (McLeod, 2013). The center of Eriksons…

women are evil and corruptive, after his mother died Ed Gein had become obsessed with anatomy, the going to dig up the graves of recently deceased women, he then began killing women with similarities to his own mother, seemingly lacking any form of ego, similar to that of Patrick Bateman. Ellis goes as far as presenting strong similarities between the two in his novel, with the dark humour seen throughout American Psycho Bateman quotes Ed Gein as he explains what he thinks when he sees a pretty…

. According to Freud, personality is a kind of arena in which what a person wants to do (instinct i.e. Id) conflicts with what he has learnt he should do (morality as represented by Super Ego) and where reconciliation is made and compromise arrived at (by Ego). (8) Akhila is the one who lives her life to fulfil the dreams of her family. The Super Ego of Akhila made her to create her own life for social status. Not only Akhila but also other women, Sheela and Marikolanthu in the comportment…

For example if someone’s id was too active compared to their ego and superego then they may have a more impulsive personality and may be more likely to act based on what they think may be pleasurable rather than doing the rational thing. Freud’s theories were increasingly influential as he was the…

the id, ego and superego. The id is driven by the pleasure principle, as it strives to satisfy its desires and reduce inner tension…

2. My interaction with Steve Carell has a direct relation to the psychodynamic theory, more specially his idea of the pleasure and reality principle. My inner id told me to jump for joy as Carell walked over to me and said hi, my ego said to act cordially and give a very warm and professional handshake, and lastly my superego found a happy medium of both. These were all unconscious actions that never really went through my mind however deep down the interaction with Carell had a lot of…

I want to compare and contrast Psychoanalysis and Reality Therapy. To accomplish my purpose I will describe the similarities and differences of both theories and decide which one fits better my work setting; high school. Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis was born from a therapeutic method for certain nerve diseases which Sigmund Freud and his colleague and compatriot Joseph Breuer jointly elaborated around 1890 and which would produce the work Studies on Hysteria (1895). Freud's first concern in…

to three years is explored by Freud, whose work consisted of the psychosexual development and offered explanations to unconscious thoughts and desires. Freud believed that humans had a psyche composed in three parts which controlled behaviour; the id, ego,…