Psychoanalytical Model (Freud)

• Psychoanalytical Model by Freud


  Believed that much of human behavior is motivated by repressed sexual impulses and desires.
• Freud's Theory of Personality

  1. Id
  2. Ego
  3. Superego
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Id - reflects instinctual primitive drives
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Ego - reality
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Id - pleasure-seeking behavior, aggression, and sexual impulses
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Id -  needs immediate gratification
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Ego - mediates and balances id and superego
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Superego - moral conscience
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Superego - reflects moral and ethical concepts, values, and parental and social expectation
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Superego - direct opposition with the id
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Superego - result of reward and punishment during childhood
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Superego - reflects moral and ethical concepts, values, and parental and social expectation
• Id, ego, or superego?

  Ego - represents mature and adaptive behavior, which allows people to function successfully in the world.
• Antisocial Disorder 


  condition where id is dominant
• OCD, Anorexia


  condition where superego is dominant
• Id, ego, superego?

  Id - operates on the pleasure principle
• Id, ego, superego?


  Ego - Operates on the reality principle
• Id, ego, superego?


  Superego - Operates on the idealistic principle
• Three level of awareness:

  • Conscious
  • Preconscious
  • Unconscious
• Level of awareness

  Conscious - it readily recalls events
• Level of awareness

  Preconscious - pertains to thoughts and emotions that are not currently in the person's awareness, but they can be recalled with some effort
• Level of awareness

  Preconscious - an adult remembering what he did, thought, or felt as a child
• Level of awareness

  Unconscious - the realm of thoughts and feelings that motivate a person, even though he is totally unaware of them.
• Level of awareness

  Unconscious - this includes memories or thoguths that do not enter awareness, like defense mechanisms; "slips of the tongue"
• Level of awareness

  According to Freud, the memory of traumatic events that are too painful for the person to remember are repressed into the uncocnscious.