Freud And Anxiety

We use these mechanisms to cope with anxiety created by the id, reality, and the superego, so the ego creates these mechanisms (Cherry, n.d. para. 2). Freud’s topographical model consists of conscious, unconscious and preconscious. Conscious is everything your aware of, unconscious is the part of our mind that is very difficult to retrieve and contains everything we are unaware of and our preconscious is everything that is retrievable that you are not currently aware of. Then there is Freud’s structural model which contains the id, ego, and the superego (Fritzley, 2010, p. 10-13).

Freud is the psychologist who is credited with the development of psychodynamic perspective. He thought your personality came from id, ego, and superego. Your id is your unconscious drives and where a person’s sexual energy comes from. Your ego is what deals with demands of reality, it tries still bring you pleasure, but under the norms of reality. Your super ego is the harsh internal judge of your behavior. Freud also believed in defense mechanisms, strategies for dealing with anxiety. Defense mechanisms distort reality and protect you from a stressful situation. Denial is a defense mechanism in which the ego refuses to acknowledge a situation. Displacement is directing unacceptable impulses at a less frightening target. Projection is the defense mechanism in which we see in others those impulses that we most fear about ourselves. Freud thought every behavior stemmed from your sexual drive. When you 're a baby it is your oral stage, the pleasure center is the mouth. When you are a toddler it is your anal stage. Children learn they control when they can go to the bathroom. When you are 3-6 it 's your phallic stage.

Freud is known for his theories of the human mind. One of the most well known ideas is that of the psyche. The psyche is the unconscious mind, which consists of the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the part of the mind that operates on the pleasure principle. The id strives to

In Freud 's theory, the ego mediates among the id, the super-ego and the external world. Its task is to find a balance between primitive drives, morals, and reality while satisfying the id and superego. Its main concern is with the individual 's safety and allows some of the id

Freud’s unconscious and conscious systems are related to different functions of the three main structures of the mind, the id, the ego, and the superego. According to Freud, the traditional idea of

Sigmund Freud was a well known psychologist whose theories have founded the understanding of the human psyche. Freud’s theory of personality is one of his most known theories. It details that there are three segments of consciousness. The id is desire, immorality and is what drives us to do wrong. The superego exists to counteract and overpower the id, as it is morality, commonly known as our conscious. The ego exists to balance out both extremes and devises a solution to sate each segment. Then there are the defense mechanisms, repression, denial, projection, displacement, regression and sublimation. These are employed by the ego to keep the balance between the id and the superego and to protect the psyche, especially in traumatic times. Last, the Oedipus complex which Freud believed, only exists in children from the ages of 3-5, when they become attracted to

Firstly, the id which is related to the primitive instincts of the body and has a pleasure – pain principle that emphasises immediate gratification. Secondly, the superego which is the ethical component of a person’s personality and is partly conscious and partly unconscious. It reflects society’s moral standards and forms during the Oedipus complex. Lastly, the ego which has a reality principle and is a moderator of conflict between the id and superego that sometimes causes anxiety. To prevent these conflicts within an individual, defence mechanisms are often used, for example, repression which helps the conscious mind to deal with the unresolved conflicts (cited in Ian Fairholm, 2012). Furthermore, Freud also believed that there were three levels to the mind which are known as the conscious, preconscious and unconscious.

hysteria, I had various difficulties navigating through the text and analyzing Freud’s writing. However, there were parts that also gave me a really good understanding of the unconscious. In the beginning of the text, Freud explains to the reader how patients sometimes tend to have gaps in their memory due to their illness or they are simply frightened or ashamed to share what happened to them or what they have done. In these cases, paramnesia can occur causing the patients to confuse facts and fantasies. This passage really helped me to grasp how the mind works and how the information can be coherent or incoherent depending on the situation. In this writing, Freud gives a deep observation about how the unconscious works and how he gives treatment to his patients.

The Theory of Freud within The Road Sigmund Freud was a very popular neurologist who had one very important idea: a person’s psyche is made up of three different parts. These parts include the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the little devil on one shoulder and is all about impulse and doing things for yourself. The ego is the mediator and the reality principle. The superego is the little angel on the other shoulder that acts as your conscience.

“Anxiety represents a repetition of the early traumatic experience; Anxiety in the present is related to an earlier danger (Cervone, Pervin, Oliver 2005 p93).” Freud suggested in his psychoanalytic theory that anxiety result from conflict between the drive of the id instincts and the threat of punishment by the superego (Cervone, Pervin, Oliver 2005 p93).

The definition of hysteria is a “psychological disorder (not now regarded as a single definite condition) whose symptoms include conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization), selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behavior”. To me, psychoanalysis can seem sometimes forced upon a patient from the analyst just so there is a reason for someone’s odd behavior. Throughout the study, it becomes increasingly evident that because Dora is a woman in the nineteenth century there becomes a reason for everything she does that wouldn’t necessarily matter if she were a man. In this very feminist text, Freud’s psychoanalysis becomes skewed because of Dora’s gender.

The following will analyse the Psychodynamic theory founded by Sigmund Freud. It will focus on the components of the ‘mind’ including the Conscious, the pre-conscious proper and the Unconscious. Examining his structure of Personality with reference to The’ Id’, ‘Ego’ and ‘Super-ego’. It will discuss Freud’s proposal of stages within his ‘psychosexual development’. It will then focus on Carl Rogers Humanistic theory, explaining his concept of the ‘Actualizing tendency’ and incorporating his creations of ‘Self concept’, the ‘Organismic self’ and the ‘Ideal self’. As a contribution to Roger’s work also highlighting Abraham Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of needs’. Freud and Rogers will then

Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality and the stages of consciousness and its constant battle paint a very negative picture of human life. The ego constantly has to battle the id and its selfish demands and the superego flying in trying hard to aid the id in calming down and strengthening the ego. As such our mind is constantly in war, our ego constantly battling off the evil id and losing every battle.

Part of Freud’s theory was that the Id, Ego and Super Ego were in constant conflict with each other. It involves the Id wanting immediate satisfaction and the super ego who wants the id/person to behave leaving the ego constantly trying to resolve the issue.

According to Freud, there are three kinds of anxiety – reality, moral and neurotic. Reality anxiety is experienced when there is an actual danger coming from the external world. Moral anxiety arises when there is a conflict between one’s behavior and what the superego is demanding one to do. Finally, neurotic anxiety is felt when the ego feels incapable of controlling the id and the urges hiding in it. The tools people use to get rid of anxiety is what psychoanalysts call “Defense Mechanisms” (Schultz and Schultz, 2009). Defense mechanisms are different behavioral patterns, some of them are considered mature (for example humor) and some immature but what is important for this paper is that in psychoanalytic therapy, defense mechanisms are identified and the goal of the therapy is to overcome them and access the unconscious conflicts which are according to the Freudians the root of any mental problem. Moreover, all problems’ origin can be found in childhood - most often in a faulty relationship with one of the primary caregivers (Hough,