Question

Freud's psychoanalytic theory is complex and has many components. Nonetheless, there is a sort of

red thread running through its many parts that have often been cited as a defining preoccupation of the

theory. what is it?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud is considered to be the founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology, which looks to unconscious drives to explain human behaviour. Sigmund believed that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions that it makes on the basis of psychological drives.

Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis is a type of therapy that aims to release repressed emotions and memories in for to lead the client to catharsis for healing in other words the goal of psychoanalysis is to bring what exist at the unconscious or subconscious level up to consciousness

Sigmund Freud put forth the model of human mind which is divided into 2-3 layers or regions

1. conscious, this is where our current thoughts, feelings and focus live

2. preconscious, otherwise called subconscious, this is the home of everything we can recall or retrieve from our memory

3. unconscious, is the deepest level of our minds resides a repository of the process that drives our behaviour including primitive and instinctual Desire.

Freud believed that the answers to what controlled daily actions recited in the unconscious mind despite alternative views that all our behaviour were conscious

Later Sigmund Freud posited a more structured model of the mind, one that can coexist with his original ideas about consciousness and subconsciousness. has three metaphorical parts in the mind

1.Id: the Id operates at an unconscious level and focuses solely on instinctual drives and Desire. to biological instincts make up the the Id according to Freud, Eros for the Instinct to survive that drive us to engage in life- sustaining activities and thanatos, for the death Instinct that drives destructive aggressive and violent behaviour.

2. Ego: the ego acts as both a conduct for a check on the Id, working to meet the Ids needs in a socially appropriate way. it is the most tied to reality and begins to develop in infancy.

3. Superego: the superego is the portion of the mind in which morality and higher principles reside encouraging us to act in socially and morally acceptable ways.

fraud believes that these three parts of the mind are in constant conflict because each part has a different primary goal. when the conflict is too much for a person to handle his or her ego may engage in one or more defence mechanisms to protect the individual. The defence mechanism includes repression, denial, projection, displacement, regression and sublimation.

  In Freudian theory , the human mind is structured into two main parts: the conscious and unconscious mind. the conscious mind includes all the things we are aware of and can easily bring into awareness. An unconscious mind on the other hand includes all of the things outside of our awareness- all of the wishes Desire hopes urges and memories that lie outside of awareness yet continue to influence behaviour. fraud compared the mind to an Iceberg. The tip of the Iceberg that is actually visible about the water represents just a tiny portion of the mind while the huge expansion of the ice hidden underneath the water represents the much larger and unconscious.