Freud's Psychodynamic theory of aggression

• sublimation is the process of channelling aggression into acceptable behaviours
• displacement is taking anger and frustration out on a person or object not the actual target of the anger
• Denial is when a traumatic event happens and the person denies that it has happened at all
• Repression is the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts or feelings from the conscious mind
• The defensive mechanisms used against the ego are repression, denial, displacement and sublimation.
• Thanatos is the "death instinct", self destruction. The drive to return to the state before birth.
• Eros is the "life instinct", drive to preserve life.
• Id: unconscious desires. (sex, eating and aggression). The pleasure prinicple
• Ego: is conscious. The reality principle, the mediator between id and superego
• superego: the part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers. The moral principle, rules, morals and norms.
• The three components that make up a personality in freud's theory of aggression are id, ego, superego.
• Freud's psychodynamic theory of aggression is that aggression is a defense mechanism that is used to protect the ego from the id. The three parts must be balanced or aggression occurs
• (Strength of Freud's theory of aggression) Freud uses case studies to develop his theories. These are in depth studies of real people.
• (weakness of freud's theory of aggression) Freud's concepts are hard to measure scientifically.
• (Weakness of freud's theory of aggression) Case studies require interpretation. This may be subjective.