Freud's Ego Model

In his story A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah struggles to balance his id, ego and superego during his time of recovery at UNICEF’s rehabilitation center. The id, ego, and superego are terms that Sigmund Freud introduced to explain differences in the unconscious mind. The id is of the unconscious the part of our minds in which our drives towards pleasures and bodily needs, such as self preservation, aggression, and sexual urges are found this unconscious part is the primary of the unconscious this is is also primitive. I like to think when eating a cake my id will want the whole thing accepting the calories and all. The ego is the balance between the id and superego and is actually conscious. Our ego

Freud’s structural and topographical model of personality, revolves around the id, ego and superego (McLeod, 2008). As a newborn, I was born with my id which allowed me to get my basic needs met. As an infant, I would cry if I was hungry or tired or just wanted to be held, I did not think of anyone else. The second part of my personality started around when I was three years old, and according to Freud this is when I began to develop my ego. An example of this would be if I was hungry I would want to satisfy my id, but at the

Freud is credited for developing the structural model in which he describes the three parts of the psyche as the id, ego, and super-ego. The id is the unconscious personality structure that contains the basic drives of individuals (self-gratification). The ego is the organized and realistic part of the personality. The super-ego acts as the conscience that maintains the sense of morality.

Sigmund Freud is one of the most well known philosophers, neurologist, and psychologist of all time for many reasons. What Freud is mainly known for is his powerful thoughts and beliefs on morality along with human personality. Through out the two books, The Ego and the ID as well as Civilization and It’s Discontents, both written by Freud, he uses the terms ID, ego, and super-ego quite often. The ID could be described as the structure in one’s self that drives them to do what they do. It is what controls what we as humans desire or want in life. Freud’s main focus throughout these two books is the super-ego. According to Freud’s beliefs, the super-ego is an ego of such perfection. Freud displays the super-ego as something within

According to Freud, the ego ideal is the source of narcissism that relates to repression and the unconscious, topics explored in his other theories. In this essay, he discusses the ego ideal and the actual ego. The ego ideal is the representation of what one wants to become. It is the perfect, idealized version of one’s self. The actual ego is the reality of that person. The ego ideal ultimately serves the pleasure principle. One of the opposing drives Freud presents is the drive for pleasure. An argument Freud presents in his essay is where does self-serving for pleasure end and fulfilment of responsibilities begin? Our impulses drive us to nourish and protect ourselves. This drive, part of the pleasure principle, is an effect of the ideal

Freud had studied many clients during psychotherapy sessions, (Hunt, 2007). He conjectured that the id, ego, and superego were three main constituents of every individual, (Butcher, Mineka, & Hooley, 2013). Freud believed that these three components might strive for different goals at times, which leads to struggle and anxiety that the conscious limits with the use of defense mechanisms, (Butcher, Mineka, & Hooley, 2013). Defense mechanisms also known as ego-defense mechanisms, mental maneuvers that aid in pacifying anxiety in the unconscious rather than dealing with the worrisome physical situation itself, (Butcher, Mineka, & Hooley, 2013). A few types of defense mechanisms are projection, displacement, and repression, (Butcher, Mineka,

The ego works as per the Reality Principle which offers us some assistance with directing our unsuitable sexual and forceful desires to more satisfactory targets. For instance, when you stroll down the road and see a to a great looking individual, the ego offers us some assistance with realizing that it is not socially satisfactory to cross the road, get the individual, and engage in sexual relations with them. Rather, the conscience

May is a 17 year old high school student in Malaysia. Her parents view education as a very important aspect in life and a way to achieve success, hence are compelling May to achieve good grades in her studies. As her parents think she should concentrate on her studies they are against the idea of her earning extra pocket money to buy some of the things she wants by taking up a part-time job. Furthermore, they disapprove of her boyfriend of two years as they feel that he might be a distraction to her studies. Also, her parents object her ambition of being a hairdresser, as they think she has the potential to one day become a

Ever since I was a little girl I have been extremely attached to my family. Graduating high school was a great success; however, moving away from home and heading off to college was a dreading task. Leaving home and going off to college was a difficult moment for my family as well as myself. After I left home and began attending college there were moments when I felt sad, depressed, and had a deep sense of guilt. I felt like something was holding me back, yet I had no idea what it was or how it could be solved. I thought I felt sad because I was away from my family and did not know anyone at Stanislaus State, I also thought that all this sadness led to a deep depression that urged me to act out. Although all these sensations were internal,

The ego is the part of the mind that represents consciousness. It employs reason, common sense, and the power to delay immediate responses to external stimuli (Storr). When making a decision, the ego balances out both needs of the id and the superego. In Freud’s own words, “It performs that task by gaining control over the demands of the instincts, by deciding whether they are to be allowed satisfaction, by postponing that satisfaction or suppressing their excitations entirely,” (Freud). Being a stereotypical earnest

To become a healthy adult socially, mentally and physically Freud believed that children must develop a reasonable balance between id and superego. Id is the natural, unsocialized, biological portion of self, including hunger and sexual urges. Superego is composed of internalized social ideas about right and wrong.

This comic strip (“Freud on ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO,” 2014) demonstrates the topic of personality, more specifically the structure of it, as discussed on page 471 in the textbook. This concept introduces three components to personality: Id, Ego, and Superego (Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, & Nock, 2014). The id is the selfish and careless component of personality which is why this man wants to sleep with a woman who is not his wife, thus demonstrating greediness. The ego is much more rational and looks at ways to balance id and ego, which is demonstrated in the comic strip when he considers what his wife’s emotions would be if he slept with the attractive woman. Adding on, the superego is the realistic one that focuses on morals. This is why he

Personality is the enduring and unique cluster of characteristics that may change in response to different situations. It can be asses via different approaches such as Self-report or objective inventories, projective techniques, clinical interviews, behavioural assessment procedures and thought and experience-sampling procedures. In the study of personality ideographic research and nomothetic research are used and the major methods that the clinical method, the experimental method and the correlational method.

The ego also known as the conscious is the individual him or herself. It’s the more reasoned layer which evolves and becomes stronger as the person progresses. It’s often seen as a sort of mediator between the ID and superego. It’s the ego’s job to suppress and control the ID. The ego is much like the ID it seeks to avoid pain but it takes a realistic approach to achieve pleasure. Compared to the ID the ego is weak, the ego only needs to point the ID in the right direction and reap in the benefits of the result of human actions as if it were its own. This layer has not concept of right or wrong. Its dean’s situations are simply good if the end result does not cause harm to itself or the ID. Majority of the time this layer engages in a secondary process of thinking which is rational and problem solving oriented.

Freud’s development of the structure of the mind and its multi-layered levels, the conscious, preconscious and the unconscious, was a seminal moment in psychoanalysis, and it led to a greater understanding of human actions. For Freud (1900), the mind was similar to an iceberg, with a visible part and a larger invisible section housing the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind held the key to a deeper understanding of human behaviour, motives and impulses. Freud’s theory was premised on the understanding that the unconscious mind largely controlled human action and behaviour, and the primary aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious mind conscious,that is to bring to the fore all that is buried and withheld deep within the iceberg of the mind. Consciousness then comprises only a tiny aspect of our mental existence, and dreams, slips of the tongue, nervous ticks and other unconscious behaviours are pointers to the real mind. These slips and other unconscious actions are to be explored in detail. For Freud(1900), dreams performed a huge role in the opening up of the unconscious mind. “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious”and through dream analysis, the hidden wishes and desires and fears of a dreamer could be brought to the conscious mind and then dealt with.