Read p. 453-458 in your text on Freud.
Now that you have been introduced to some of Sigmund Freud's theory, tell me what part of his structure of the personality makes sense to you. Also if something sounds ridiculous, comment on it, too. Explain why it makes sense or why it does not.
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Sigmund Freud believed in three different structures of personality. These structures include, the id, the ego and superego. The ego structure of Freud's theory makes the most sense to me. As stated in the book, an ego is defined as a partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior and is most in touch with the demands of the external world. This theory makes the most sense to me because it explains how people do good things to get the things they want. For example, a teenager doing chores to get some money on a friday night out. Peoples actions are what determines the outcome of their everyday lives. The other two theories make sense but are confusing to me. The ego theory would probably make sense to others because it is clearer and a lot of people in todays world still do good things to get what they want.
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ReplyDeleteFreud’s dynamic theory of personality concludes of psychological forces. These forces are the conscious, preconscious and unconscious. Freud explains that these three forces develop your thinking process and makes you aware and have your own thoughts. The feeling ability and how you process everything in your mind. The structure of personality is three parts as well and these include the id, the ego, and the superego. I think the id makes the most sense to me because it shows the ideas we come up with using what we know. The id helps us to be aware of our surroundings because we were born with it and don’t develop into it. It shows basically why we decide to do things and say to ourselves, “let me think about it”. It has our ability to realize what pain is and how we react to it and comprehend that when we get hurt we don’t do it again. It appreciates the pleasure principle and helps us to control it but also helps us to reduce the pain principle and know when something will hurt or will be wrong.
After reading about the different personality theories, the one that is called psychoanalytic perspective is the one that makes the most sense to me. I agree with the book when it says that by the age of about 5 children have developed like an internal parental voice that is partly conscious. Parents teach their children how to act and speak. If by the age of 5 they don’t know how to be polite or aren’t well rounded, I don’t think they will learn it. Until they go to school, their parents are their main examples of how to act. I also agree with the “id”. The “id” is present at birth. I believe that the “id” is like who you are. You are born with your unique personality, but you will define it and it can change somewhat as you grow older.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading the different structures of thought that Frued came up with i believe that the "id" is the most appealing to me. As the others say that a person is born with this one and it is only strenghtened throughout life to give people the ability to decypher whats right and whats wrong and that to me makes the most sence. In the other ones the structures are built over time so depending on where someone lives and who they live around can change how someone reacts and controls certain situations which to me makes them less important but i still believe that they are used.
ReplyDeleteFreud's theory of personality incorporates the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. I think they all make sense in their own way. For example, the "id" is basically human instinct. It is your most human desire without all of the rules and teachings of proper life. Like the example on page 458, when you know you have to get up and out of bed, the id is telling you to not worry and keep sleeping since its not light out yet. Your superego is when you are partly conscious. It tells you right from wrong. It can decipher a situation, like what is the right thing to do...going back to the bed situation it will tell you to get up because you made a promise to meet a friend. Your ego is the partly conscious part of you that reminds you of what is around you. Your ego is what will decide will happen based on the demands of the world, it can help to compromise. This is probably the part that I find most difficult to understand. How does your ego make a decision and find a compromise? The id is the most simple to understand because it is basic desires that everyone wants.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find most interesting about this reading is mankind's willingness to sacrafice. Freud's structure of personality has three parts: the ego (conscious), the superego (preconscious), and the id (unconscious). I am impressed with man's ability to repress his own urges in order to conform to a more stable society. According to the text, "the id is ruled by the pleasure principle" which means what man wants he naturally attempts to achieve. Starting at birth, we make it a point as children to scream and make noise when we want something, but gradually learn to be polite and wait for things, as if we are naturally trying to earn these items. We, as human beings, instinctively let go of this desire to have whatever we want in order to show gratitude and prove that we can wait to seek pleasure. To me, it seems as if we naturally want to prove to ourselves that we can sacrafice for satisfaction. For this reason, I find it hard to believe in conscious acceptance and learning of right versus wrong, but rather we are born with the knowledge to determine this and choose between them in order to prove our worth to society.
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ReplyDeleteTo me the most interesting part of Sigmund Frued's Theory is the ID the most primitive part of the personality. it is entirely unconscious and present at birth. It relates to the values of logic, morality, danger, and demands of the external world. It states that the ID will later evolve into the ego and superego. This makes the most sense to me because of the relentless drive toward immediate satisfaction. For example, when an infant is born and feels cold, hungry or uncomfortable the newborn wants to experience love and the need to always have immediate satisfaction.
The structure of personality such as the ID, Ego and superego, in my opinion was the most interesting to me and made the most sense. This is because it just shows how humans develop intellectually as we get older. For example the Id is present right at birth, and then as the child gets older they go through the ego stage in which they learn what the morals and values of their parents. By the age of five or six most children reach the superego stage where based on the moral values they were thought by their parents helps them to evaluate situations on thier own and can tell right from wrong. However, i feel that although children know right from wrong as we get older we may see some of the morals or values we were thought as not being so important and go against them. I feel that is a natural instict that occurs in all humans, so in some way the superego may be the stage were children decide weather or not to believe in the morals they are thought.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, Freud's theory on personality which incorporates the conscious, the unconscious and the preconscious makes a lot of sense overall but the ID (unconscious) rather than the superego and the ego makes the most sense. My reasoning behind why I believe that the ID makes the most sense is because it involves all of our actions based on instincts we were born with. For example, in class we discussed on how as a baby, if we were hungry, we couldn't ask for food so instinctually we cry and scream to get what we want, and as we progress through life, our instincts change and the manor in which we go about getting what we want changes and that makes perfect sense to me.
ReplyDeleteafter reading about Freud's perspectives on personality, I see all three structures followable and clear. although Id, the primitve senses that we are born with seem to be more easier to follow because it is just us tending to our basic needs, i think that they are all important to understand. the one i have more trouble completely understanding completely is the ego, where it says that it is the reality principle which is used to get what we want,
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I personally find the "sleeping with your parents" theory completely rediculous. I mean, I dont know exactly how everybody thinks but personally it's deffinately not something I could ever reallyt hink about. Freud was a genious however. Working with the mind is an extremely hard job and being a psychologist must be very stressful; dealing with people and what theyre thinking about all the time. His structure of "the personality" makes sence to me. I believe there is a way to retrieve all that information that we store in our "unconcious". Scientists should look more in depth on this topic because it could really help in situations where memory is an issue and things need to be remembered. Sigmund Freud introduced sometihng to really get thinking about.
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Sigmund Frued's idea that we want to subconciously have the desire to sleep with our parents is absolutely rdiculous. How can one even think of that. I believe that is crazy. But i do also have to agree on the personality and the super ego with the ID matter. That i believe is tru especially the picture we drew in our notebooks about th e concious unconcious preconcious and instincts has the true effect on us.
ReplyDeleteSigmund Frueds theory about the ID, Ego, and Superego make so much sense to me. It makes sense to me, because what we do depends on the instincts that we are born with. Whatever our body needs to survive we will get. If our body needs protein, then we crave foods that have an abundance of protein. When a baby wants food, then it will cry. Throughout life, what we want will change, but our instincts will always be there.
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After reading about the different personality theories, the psychoanalytic perspective seems to be the one that's making a lot of sense to me right now. The books stats that around the age of 5 children develop a internal parental voice that is partly conscious. I agree with it. Different people are born with different traits, but you can grow upon them as you continue to get older.
ReplyDeleteSigmund Frueds theories make a lot of sence to me. I feel our body adapts to what it needs to be in order to survive. Our body will change throughout our lifetime, but the cool thing is that our insticts that we have will always be in place. I never realized how smart the human body and mind uruley is, and Frued expresses those ideas.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Freud is right on target on most of his theories. For instance I definately think that he put into consideration that tramatic events affects the individual. I don't agree, however, that he believes our personality is set by the time we are twenty. When we are twenty we are still in the immature stage of college and some people haven't decided what they want to do for a living. I think that when we are about twenty five our personalities are developed because that is when our lives are about a quarter of the way through and at that point situations have become serious or of a serious nature. Most have a feeling of getting older at twenty five because it is half way to fifty.
ReplyDeleteI feel that alot of what Freud says makes sense, i just dont agree that everyone wants to have a sexual relation with their parents. I agree that sex is the most important impulse in our lives, because it keeps the species alive. If someone doesnt eat or drink water, then they die, not the whole species. But if we dont mate, then our species could become extinct.
ReplyDeletei agree with robii for the most part i can understand all 3 theories, the ego is still unclear to me aswell. Because its not like people always do get what they want and only some can get used to that, but i believe if thats the case some of those people tend to be the most unfriendly senseless, non sociable people.
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