Freudian Revolution

FREUDIAN REVOLUTION
GROUP 4
SOBREDO, KARL ESTORPE, ANGELO

BANSAGAN, JIM CHAN, COLLEEN
VILLAVICENCIO, ANGEL LANGREO, SCARLET
PALMARES, ANGELA
FREUDIAN REVOLUTION
In the past
FREUDIAN REVOLUTION
• Inthe past, the field of psychology was always classified
under philosophy. Psychology was considered more of an
art rather than science. In the late 19 th century, Sigmund
Freud was able to change people’s perception pf
psychology with his revolutionary theory of
psychoanalysis.
SIGMUND FREUD
• Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) was the founding father of
psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and also a
theory which explains human behavior.
• Freud believed that events in our childhood have a great influence
on our adult lives, shaping our personality. For example, anxiety
originating from traumatic experiences in a person's past is hidden
from consciousness, and may cause problems during adulthood
(in the form of neuroses).
SIGMUND FREUD
• Thus, when we explain our
behavior to ourselves or others
(conscious mental activity), we
rarely give a true account of our
motivation. This is not because
we are deliberately lying. While
human beings are great deceivers
of others; they are even more
adept at self-deception.
PSYCHOANALYSIS THEORY
• Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human
behavior is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the
mind: the id, ego, and superego. This theory, known as Freud’s structural
theory of personality, places great emphasis on the role of unconscious
psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality. Dynamic
interactions among these fundamental parts of the mind are thought to
progress through five distinct psychosexual stages of development. Over the
last century, however, Freud’s ideas have since been met with criticism, in
part because of his singular focus on sexuality as the main driver of human
personality development.
PSYCHOANALYSIS THEORY
Freud’s Structure of the Human Mind
• According to Freud, our personality develops from the interactions
among what he proposed as the three fundamental structures of the
human mind: the id, ego, and superego. Conflicts among these three
structures, and our efforts to find balance among what each of them
“desires,” determines how we behave and approach the world. What
balance we strike in any given situation determines how we will
resolve the conflict between two overarching behavioral tendencies:
our biological aggressive and pleasure-seeking drives vs. our
socialized internal control over those drives.
THE ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO
THE ID
• The id, the most primitive of the three structures, is
concerned with instant gratification of basic physical
needs and urges. It operates entirely unconsciously
(outside of conscious thought). For example, if your id
walked past a stranger eating ice cream, it would most
likely take the ice cream for itself. It doesn’t know, or
care, that it is rude to take something belonging to
someone else; it would care only that you wanted the ice
cream.
THE EGO
In contrast to the instinctual id and the moral superego, the ego is the rational,
pragmatic part of our personality. It is less primitive than the id and is partly
conscious and partly unconscious. It’s what Freud considered to be the “self,”
and its job is to balance the demands of the id and superego in the practical
context of reality. So, if you walked past the stranger with ice cream one more
time, your ego would mediate the conflict between your id (“I want that ice
cream right now”) and superego (“It’s wrong to take someone else’s ice
cream”) and decide to go buy your own ice cream. While this may mean you
have to wait 10 more minutes, which would frustrate your id, your ego
decides to make that sacrifice as part of the compromise– satisfying your
desire for ice cream while also avoiding an unpleasant social situation and
potential feelings of shame.
THE SUPEREGO
• The superego is concerned with social rules and morals—similar
to what many people call their ” conscience ” or their “moral
compass.” It develops as a child learns what their culture
considers right and wrong. If your superego walked past the same
stranger, it would not take their ice cream because it would know
that that would be rude. However, if both your id and your
superego were involved, and your id was strong enough to
override your superego’s concern, you would still take the ice
cream, but afterward you would most likely feel guilt and shame
over your actions.
PSYCHOSEXUAL
STAGES OF
DEVELOPMENT
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
• Freud believed that the nature of the conflicts among the
id, ego, and superego change over time as a person grows
from child to adult. Specifically, he maintained that these
conflicts progress through a series of five basic stages,
each with a different focus: oral, anal, phallic, latency,
and genital. He called his idea the psychosexual theory of
development, with each psychosexual stage directly
related to a different physical center of pleasure.
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
• Across these five stages, the child is presented with different
conflicts between their biological drives (id) and their social and
moral conscience (supereg0) because their biological pleasure-
seeking urges focus on different areas of the body (what Freud
called “erogenous zones”). The child’s ability to resolve these
internal conflicts determines their future ability to cope and
function as an adult. Failure to resolve a stage can lead one to
become fixated in that stage, leading to unhealthy personality
traits; successful resolution of the stages leads to a healthy adult.

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