Structure of Personality (Freud) Flashcards
Freud divided human personality into 3 significant components:-
Intro
- id
- ego
- superego
Conflicts among these 3 structures & our efforts to balance their desires
Intro
determines how we behave and approach the world.
Balance between our biological aggressive and pleasure-seeking drives vs. our socialized internal control over those drives
Intro
determines how the conflict between two overarching behavioral tendencies resolves in a situation.
Conflict within the mind
Intro
According to Freud, job of the ego is to balance
- the aggressive/pleasure-seeking drives of the id
with - the moral control of the superego
Conflict within the mind Diagram
Intro
Id acts according to the pleasure principle,
Id
demanding immediate gratification of its needs regardless of external environment.
Freud called the pleasure principle
Id
through its concern with tension reduction
Id is the reservoir for
Id
the instincts and libido.
libido - the psychic energy manifested by the instincts
Id as the reservoir of the instincts,
Id
directly related to the satisfaction of bodily needs.
Id is powerful structure of the personality
Id
because it supplies all the energy for the other two components.
ego and superego
Id functions to increase <> and avoid <>.
Id
increase pleasure and avoid pain.
Id has no awareness of
Id
reality.
The Primary Process thought: childlike thinking
Id
by which the id attempts to satisfy the instinctual drives.
Ego: the secondary process thought- the growing child is taught (1)
Ego
to deal intelligently and rationally with the outside world
Ego: the secondary process thought- the growing child is taught (2)
Ego
to develop
- the power of perception,
- recognition,
- judgement and
- memory,
the powers adults use to satisfy their needs their abilities are called secondary process thought.
