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Freudian Theory

Freudian theory proposes that personality has three elements: the id, ego, and superego. The id operates unconsciously and seeks instant self-gratification. The ego balances the id with reality. The superego incorporates social and moral standards that the ego learns. Later theorists like Adler and Horney argued that social and environmental factors have more influence on personality than biological drives. They believed personality develops through striving for superiority and contributing to the greater good. While some of Freud's specific theories were disproven, psychoanalysis remains an important framework in psychology.

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Freudian Theory

Freudian theory proposes that personality has three elements: the id, ego, and superego. The id operates unconsciously and seeks instant self-gratification. The ego balances the id with reality. The superego incorporates social and moral standards that the ego learns. Later theorists like Adler and Horney argued that social and environmental factors have more influence on personality than biological drives. They believed personality develops through striving for superiority and contributing to the greater good. While some of Freud's specific theories were disproven, psychoanalysis remains an important framework in psychology.

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Freudian Theory

Assignment : 2

Name:
Muhammad Shahroze Ilyas

Roll Number:
LCM 3080

Semester:
7th
Shift:
Morning
Date:
3-13-2017
Submitted To:
Maam Zara

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Freudian Theory

Freudian Theory

According to Sigmund Freud, human personality is complex and has more than a single
component. In his famous psychoanalytic theory of personality, personality is composed of three
elements. These three elements of personality known as,

ID

EGO

SUPEREGO

Each component adds its own unique contribution to personality and all three elements work
together to form complex human behaviors.

ID:
The id is the most primitive of the three structures, is concerned with instant gratification of
basic physical needs and urges. It operates entirely unconsciously.

The id is the only component of personality that is present from birth.

This aspect of personality is entirely unconscious and includes the instinctive and
primitive behaviors.

According to Freud, the id is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary
component of personality.

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Ego:

In contrast to the instinctual ID and the moral super ego, the ego is the rational, pragmatic part of
our personality. It is less primitive than the ID and impartially conscious and partially
unconscious. Its what Freud considered to be the self and its job is to balance the demand of
the ID and super ego in the practical context of reality.

The ego is the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality.

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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.

The ego functions in both the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.

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Super Ego:

The super ego is concerned with social rules and morals. Similar to what many people call their
conscious or their moral compass. It develops as child learns what their culture considers
right and wrong.

The last component of personality to develop is the superego.

The superego is the aspect of personality that holds all of our internalized moral standards
and ideals that we acquire from both parents and society - our sense of right and wrong.

The superego provides guidelines for making judgments.

According to Freud, the superego begins to emerge at around age five.

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Difference Between Freudian And Neo Freudian?

The problems with Freudian theory and focus came when anthropologists came back from
their studies with news that some of Freuds assumptions about the universality of biological
imperatives for humans were simply not proven. Societies where latency never occurred, for
example, and where other standards of normality were established and worked just fine offered
proof that other social environments existed and did have a major effect on the individuals
personality and behavior. Sociologists were also discovering the far greater impact of
environment and society on the individual, and that fixed, universal, and immutable personality
qualities and behavioral potentials did not exist in all humans.

Alfred Adler and Karen Horney are the two most well known proponents of the neo Freudian
school of psychological thought. Both believed that the biological basis for human personality
and behavior should be replaced with far more attention to social conditions, in relation to
causing anxiety and conflict, striving for superiority through self-perfection and and in striving to
work for the public good. Rather than serving as functions of our biological imperatives when we
reach maturity, we direct our activities toward specific endeavors toward social ends that give us
feelings of superiority. Adler, (1930)

Adler naturally looked into inferority and developed the theory of the Inferority Complex,
where in early childhood, there are things that some can do, but we cannot, creating the internal
construct that we are inferior. In more pathological situations, the anxiety and conflict can

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continue without healthy resolution throughout life, and even when the actions of the individual
to achieve superiority result in great accomplishment. To the individual, the accomplishments are
never enough.

While some, or many, of Freuds theories have been modified or disproven, his work remains a
viable, powerful, and major part of our education and understanding of psychoanalysis, the
biology of the mind, psychotherapy and psycopathology.

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