The Ego and the Id

and how you identify yourself as, one must deal with their emotions, external and internal. To fully cmprenhende these topics one must understand how past experiences affect our unconscious and conscious reactions. I found both reading of chapter 4 “Ego Psychology” and chapter 5 The Relational Theories, with a Focus on object relations” useful and informative. Both chapters had involved learned behaviors that are usually carried out thoughout an individuals life. “The Relational Theories,…

is material that was normally hidden, forgotten, or unavailable to conscious reflection (Jay, 2016). This is also when Freud came to the idea of the id, ego, and super ego. The ego and the unconscious work in a way where both are constituted.The id was defined in terms of the most primitive urges for gratification in the infant (Jay, 2016). The ego is the aspect of the human psyche that is conscious and most in touch with reality (Shiraev, 2015). The Superego is the moral guide with unconscious…

The first approach to be discussed is the psychodynamic approach developed by Sigmund Freud at the beginning of the 20th century. The psychoanalytic theory states that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influence behaviour. Personality has urges, believes, memories, instincts and drives that people are not always aware of and they make up this unconscious. The major driving forces behind it is the concept of libido. Libido is natural energy source that fuels the mechanisms of the…

Super ego functions on a conscious level. It serves as a kind of testing center for what is happening. At this level, the weight of society and parental guidance is balanced with personal pleasure and gain as indicated by the identifiers. Obviously, this puts in mature positions of the conflict movement. vanity Like many judges in the trial, once the experiences are processed through the Supergo and the knowledge falls on the ego to mediate a satisfactory result…

connects to all. Freudian psychoanalysts, emerging largely during Dracula’s publication began to explore Freud's’ thesis on cognitive divides - the id, acting as the primitive and instinctual part of the mind, the superego acting as a moral drive, and the ego to mediate the id and superego. Within the gothic realm, conflict between the superego and the id, epitomises the conflict between reality, and the supernatural in polarised division. Given this polarisation acts as a thematic technique…

Description of the Focus of my Theory The Kobe system theory is named after one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant. It is created around the assumption that all athletes, strive to be the best they can be in life as well as their particular sport. Athletes are paid to make a living for themselves, provide entertainment to the world and inspire young kids to grow up and be like them, role model of sorts. Yet we see countless acts of poor judgement that make headlines all…

This hiccup could be seen as a career ender, but West recorded “Through the wire”, a single from album College Dropout, even with his mouth wired shut. His As West’s career grew so did his ego. His ego kick began when he was praised for openly criticizing President Bush during relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. He is known for his random and often uncensored comments and opinions. In 2007, West’s life came to a grounding halt when his mother…

Gender studies refers to masculinity and femininity in a cultural standpoint without referring to the biological side of things. It deals with the breakdown of binaries, which refers to typical “masculine” and “feminine” behavior. We can see how society has embedded and emphasized typical behaviors relating to gender in A Doll’s House. A man is supposed to be the leader of the family and usually makes the most money in the family. The woman in the relationship is supposed to take care of the…

An Analysis of “The Black Cat” In many of his short stories, such as with the “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe deals with murder, insanity and the terrible acts that humans are capable of. In “The Cask of the Amontillado” he portrays a man so engulfed in hatred and vendetta that he seals up a man in the catacombs of his home; and in the “Tell-Tale Heart” the protagonist kills a man and buries under the floor because he was driven insane by his clear eye. While all three share a similar theme,…

It has been awhile since I did any assignment .So will try my best to get back or to recall all what I did in University years. Our lecturer is Mr.Franklin Morais. Yes he did mention about that he was not directly related the infamous Morais that we read in the newspaper, but a possible distance relation somewhere in their origin country in India. A very experience lecturer in psychologies. In psychologies we study on human mind and its function which will make us react to a certain behaviour…