Precious Psych

She was not happy in the state that she was in and not feeling safe where she was living. She sought out her family an friends to help her get through this. Wes quotes in the book ,” And finally, I want to show them that I wasn’t alone as I thought I was, and that maybe they are not alone either”(Moore 4).Over time she met a great husband and had loving children. Her kids got opportunities she always hoped they would. Without her hope that time would fix almost all problems, not of this would have

Freud proposed the psychological structure of personality to include three systems called the id, the ego, and the superego. At birth, the id is the original system of personality and is ruled by the pleasure principle. It is driven towards satisfying instinctual needs. The ego can be described as a mediator between ones instincts and their surrounding environment. The ego is ruled by the reality principle, using realistic and logical thinking to formulate action plans for satisfying needs. The superego includes a person’s moral code and strives for perfection, not pleasure. Psychic energy is distributed between these three systems creating dynamics of personality. This psychic energy is what determines behavior (Day, 2008).

Freud strategized that the personality was composed of three elements; the id, ego, and superego. The id is the component of personality that is present from birth, and is exclusively unconscious. “According to Freud, the id is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality” (Cherry,1). On the other hand, the ego is the element of the personality that is responsible with reality. “According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world” (Cherry, 1). It

As a child grows, extra care and attention is very essential in order to build the foundation of love and a strong bond. Especially, in today’s society,children are often judged by the act of their parents but in this memoir, written by Miss Jeannette Walls shows how unstainable and dysfunctional relationship Jeannette had with her parents but she still managed to use her tough upbringing for confidence and resourcefulness.

She finally was in a place where that she felt that she personally could make a change. The sight of the first grade children running around would’ve drove some to insanity, but it was quite the opposite. She describes the scene as a swirling pool of entropy (disorganization). There was chaos and an absolute mess in every direction that you looked. Now who would sign up for hours of relentless screaming, yelling, and fighting? She saw the mess as an opportunity to shape the minds of the kids. Each and every one of those kids had the potential to something great. Those first graders were our future doctors and engineers. Only no one could see it behind the screaming and

Ronita had returned to school, 2 years after Katrina, when she went into labor. The local schools, overwhelmed by thousands of children displaced from New Orleans did not welcome more students, especially with babies, and her help with her youngest brother was needed at home. She liked high school and had hoped to graduate, baby and all, but worried her mother and grandmother could not manage without her.

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

One major portion of Sigmund Freud’s perspective on psychology involves the personality structure of the id, ego, and

• Uninvolved parenting: children of uninvolved parents develop a sense that other aspects of the parents’ life are more important than they are. The child often attempt to provide for themselves, sometimes halt dependence on the parent to have a feeling of independence and mature beyond their years. Child from this environment often withdraw from social situations, this also impacts there relationships later on in life and they show patterns of truancy and delinquency.

Carl Jung’s theory stated that “an introverted person has an interest that is generally directed inward toward his own feelings and thoughts. However, an extroverted attention is directed towards other people and to the outside world”. Precious has an introverted personality. She comforts herself through her own delusional world because she didn’t have any way of escaping her cruel reality. Precious is able to disconnect from reality by imagining herself as a star greeting fans, dancing and being escorted or loved by handsome men in tuxedos. Precious avoids interacting with people outside of her family because of her low self-esteem, social anxiety and the messages she has always heard from her mother. Precious’s mother tells her constantly how worthless she is, instilling the belief that she is destined for a life of failure. In her isolation, Precious tries to achieve a balance between her fantasies and reality.

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

Anna displays Freud’s Id characteristics throughout the story, the things she wants most is life and love. Anna is in the middle of a dysfunctional marriage and starts an affair with another man. Her Id psyche is prevalent when her husband says that he loves her, but she thinks about her lover saying “...if betraying him (her husband) it would give her life a center” (Oates 239). Anna’s unconscious immature Id psyche thinks that the only way for her to have a meaningful purpose in life is to be with her lover, only looking for pleasure and not stopping to think about the consequences (McLeod). The Id is overlooking the common logic, she is married and her lover is married too, which is morally wrong, overriding the Superego to carry out this crime. Anna’s Id can be compared to that of a child’s, like a kid at the store who asks his mom for candy, and when she says no he decides to steal the candy. In contrast, Anna says “....of course she was married, permanently married” (Oates 246). Anna again, still can’t make up her mind about her life as her psyches differ in views. Like if the boy in the store were to be confronted by an employee about the stolen candy, like Anna, he would cover it up saying “My mom says never to steal, plus she also said I couldn’t have the candy.” Her Superego and Id psyches clash, as her Superego convicts her and floods her mind and body with guilt as the text said “She began to cry; she told herself: I am not here, this will pass, this is nothing. Still, she could not stop crying” (Oates 241). The fighting between the Id and the Superego have become a physical toll on Anna. She is in the middle of an argument between the two, Superego is providing the

Freud described humans as having three essential components that built personality. The three components were the id, the ego, and the superego. He described the id, as being what governed an infant’s drive to overcome their primitive biological desires. According to his theory infants had no other goal than to release the tension that built up when their

Identify one strength and one weakness of Freud’s concept of the ego, id and superego in relation to understanding human development and individual behaviour.

She had little schooling, but she had run businesses. She had managed on her own, with a husband and sons, in a country that didn’t care for her or her culture, but only for their aggrandized version of it. Her experiences were rightful cause to be jaded and hard, and yet she saw brightness and she saw brightness in me. She saw the great things in life, she loved hard and appreciated the little things — us going for a walk together or just sitting in the sun on a warm day.