Conscious mindAware of what is happening inside of you, as well as outside

This lecture, should be, apart of your conscious mind

Headache from hearing Ms. A blab on about Freud

Pre/Subconscious MindThe mind or information that is just below your consciousness

It is easily accessible

Driving home and you can’t remember how you got there

That information was readily accessible, but you were too busy thinking about how epic Psychology is.

The epicness that is is Psychology would be…

While the route home would be….

Unconscious MindWay below the surface

Biologically based urges

Sex & aggression

The forces we are unaware of that drive our behaviors

Cannot easily access this information

Can jump into subconscious and conscious

Storage for all the information you have accumulated throughout your entire life

Whenever you see a water bottle, you all of a sudden get annoyed and angry. You are not sure why, and it is not until you remember that one jerk student teacher who used it to Classically Condition your class.

Id, Ego, SuperegoFreud theorized that our personality is more that one aspect, and is based off of three parts

SuperegoThe superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learned from one's parents and others.

It develops around the age of 3 – 5

The superego's function is to control the id's impulses, especially those which society forbids, such as sex and aggression.

It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn to moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection

Two parts of the SuperegoThe conscience and the ideal self. The conscience can punish the ego through causing feelings of guilt.

The ideal self (or ego-ideal) is an imaginary picture of how you ought to be, and represents career aspirations, how to treat other people, and how to behave as a member of society.

Behavior which falls short of the ideal self may be punished by the superego through guilt. The super-ego can also reward us through the ideal self when we behave ‘properly’ by making us feel proud

If a person’s ideal self is too high a standard, then whatever the person does will represent failure. The ideal self and conscience are largely determined in childhood from parental values and how you were brought up

EgoIt is the decision making component of personality

The ego operates according to the reality principle, working out realistic ways of satisfying the id’s demands, often compromising or postponing satisfaction to avoid negative consequences of society.

Freud made the analogy of the id being a horse while the ego is the rider. The ego is “like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse” (Freud, 1923)

The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is good simply if it achieves its end of satisfying without causing harm to itself or to the id. It engages in secondary process thinking, which is rational, realistic, and orientated towards problem solving.

Id (or it)The id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality.

It consists of all the inherited (i.e. biological) components of personality, including the sex (life) instinct – Eros (which contains the libido), and the aggressive (death) instinct - Thanatos.

The personality of the newborn child is all id and only later does it develop an ego and super-ego.

The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure, when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain. The id is not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world.

The id engages in primary process thinking, which is primitive illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented.

Life (Eros)

Sometimes referred to as sexual instincts

The life instincts are those that deal with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction.

These instincts are important for sustaining the life of the individual as well as the continuation of the species.

While they are often called sexual instincts, these drives also include such things as thirst, hunger, and pain avoidance.

The energy created by the life instincts is known as libido .

Behaviors commonly associated with the life instinct include love , cooperation, and other prosocial actions.

Death (Thanatos)Freud proposed that “the goal of all life is death” (1920).

He noted that after people experience a traumatic event (such as war), they often reenact the experience.

He concluded that people hold an unconscious desire to die, but that this wish is largely tempered by the life instincts.

In Freud’s view, self-destructive behavior is an expression of the energy created by the death instincts.

When this energy is directed outward onto others, it is expressed as aggression and violence.