Personality is split into 3 parts ( ID , ego , superego ) which are in constant conflict
Early childhood experiences remain in our unconscious and affect later adult behaviours
Defence mechanisms play an important role in behaviour
Psychic determinism - no free will or choice over actions
Behaviour is rooted in the unconscious mind
Conscious - what we know about and are aware of
Preconscious - thoughts and memories that are not currently conscious but can be accessed if desired
Unconscious - Significant impact on behaviour and personality , threatening and disturbing memories that are repressed only accessed through dreams / slip of the tongue
Personality is split - ID
Completely unconscious
Pleasure principle
Only one that is present at birth
Entirely selfish and needs instant gratification
Personality is split - Super Ego
Develops at the end of the phallic stage - around 5
Morality principle - internalised sense of what is right or wrong
Represents the moral standards of the child's same gender parent
Punishes the ID and ego for wrong doing through guilt
Personality is split - Ego
Partly conscious and unconscious
Reality principle - mediator between ID and super ego
