Freud's Theory Of Personality

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Sigmund Freud’s Theory of Personality. Psychoanalytic theorist, Sigmund Freud, developed his ideas about the psychoanalytic theory of personality from work with mental patients. After a lot of research, he composed three (3) elements of personality. They are: The id, superego and ego. However, before further explanation of personality, there must first be an examination of his view on how the mind is organized. According to Freud, the mind can be divided into three main parts: 1. The conscious mind includes everything that we are aware of. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally as it is an area that is in touch with reality. 2. The preconscious mind includes our memory, which is not always part of consciousness but can be retrieved easily at any time and brought into our awareness. The information/ material stored here is not conscious but is easily related to consciousness. 3. The unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that is outside of our conscious awareness. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict. These thoughts and feelings are sometimes represented by wishes, dreams, jokes, slips of the Freudian tongue etc. According to Freud, the unconscious continues to influence our behavior and experience, even though we are unaware of these underlying influences. Slips of the Freudian Tongue. Unconscious thoughts and feelings can transfer to the conscious mind in the form of parapraxes, popularly known as “Freudian slips” or slips of the tongue. We reveal what is really on our mind by saying something we didn’t mean to.For example, a person may call a friend’s new partner by the name of a previous one, whom he/she liked better.Freud believed that slips of the tongue provided
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