Objective 22
Describe the
structure of personality as Freud views it (id, ego, superego), his concept of
defense, and his theory of development.
Explanation:
According to Freud the id strives to satisfy basic sexual, survival, and aggressive drives. It operates on the pleasure principle which seeks immediate gratification. Ego operates on the reality principle and seeks to gratify the id's impulses is realistic ways that will bring long term pleasure. Superego is the voice of our moral compass that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal. It says how we should behave. Freud said that children pass through a series of psychosexual stages during which the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones or pleasure sensitive areas of the body. The stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. For example, the oral stage is when pleasure centers on the mouth, and the genital stage is the maturation of sexual interests. Freud also said the ego protects itself with defense mechanisms which are tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality. Freud said repression underlies all the other defense mechanisms. It is the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing wishes and feelings from consciousness. Some other defense mechanisms are reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, and denial.
According to Freud the id strives to satisfy basic sexual, survival, and aggressive drives. It operates on the pleasure principle which seeks immediate gratification. Ego operates on the reality principle and seeks to gratify the id's impulses is realistic ways that will bring long term pleasure. Superego is the voice of our moral compass that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal. It says how we should behave. Freud said that children pass through a series of psychosexual stages during which the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones or pleasure sensitive areas of the body. The stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. For example, the oral stage is when pleasure centers on the mouth, and the genital stage is the maturation of sexual interests. Freud also said the ego protects itself with defense mechanisms which are tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality. Freud said repression underlies all the other defense mechanisms. It is the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing wishes and feelings from consciousness. Some other defense mechanisms are reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, and denial.
Example:
This picture gives Freud's six psychosexual stages. They are the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. It gives an age range of when they happen and some characteristics of each stage.
This picture gives Freud's six psychosexual stages. They are the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. It gives an age range of when they happen and some characteristics of each stage.
Example:
This picture tells about the six defense mechanisms. They are regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, and denial. It tells what each of them are, and it gives examples of each.
This picture tells about the six defense mechanisms. They are regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, and denial. It tells what each of them are, and it gives examples of each.