Does anyone mind explaining Freud's theory of the unconcious?

Answer 1

For the physiological state of "being unconscious", as when one is concussed or in a coma.

In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious refers to that part of mental functioning of which subjects make themselves unaware. The psychoanalytic unconscious is similar to but not precisely the same as the popular notion of the subconscious.

For psychoanalysis, the unconscious does not include all of what is simply not conscious - it does not include e.g. motor skills - but rather, only what is actively repressed from conscious thought.

As defined by Sigmund Freud, the psyche is composed of different levels of consciousness, often defined in three parts as

* the preconscious
* the waking consciousness
* and beneath both of these, the unconscious.

For Freud, the unconscious was a depository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression. However, the contents did not necessarily have to be solely negative. In the psychoanalytic view, the unconscious is a force that can only be recognized by its effects - it expresses itself in the symptom.

At the present stage, there are still fundamental disagreements within psychology about the nature of the unconscious mind (if indeed it is considered to exist at all), whereas outside formal psychology a whole world of pop-psychological speculation has grown up in which the unconscious mind is held to have any number of properties and abilities, from animalistic and innocent, child-like aspects to savant-like, all-perceiving, mystical and occultic properties.

Steven Fawcett
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Answer 2

You're talking about the Id, Ego, and SuperEgo right?

What do you want to know, feel free to IM me.

Freud believed that personality had 3 parts. Id, Ego, and superego. He believed the id contained the libido and operates at an unconscious level. the id is a person's basic sexual and aggressive implulses, which are present at birth.

The ego, the conscious, thinking part of personality, develops in the first 2 or 3 yars of life. One of the egos jobs is to keep the needs of the id satisfied. For example, when someone is hungry, the id demands food immediately, and the ego is supposed to obtain the food.

The superego, is the portion of the personality that acts as a moral judge, contains the rules of society and develops near the end of early childhood, at about age 6. Once the superego develops, the ego's task becomes more complex. It has to satisfy the id withought violating the superegos rules.


Freud also developed the theory of dreams meaning something, like repressed memories.

Answer 3

Without any research or data, my answer is the unconcious mind is not swayed or open to doubt. Therefore its real.

Answer 4

Freud gave a theory that there is part of our mind that is thinking but we are not aware of it. just as you are not aware digestion. He was under the impression that this thinking part of us sometimes affected the outcome of what our aware mind was doing. You are "concious" of yourself thinking about this, there may be part of your mind that is thinking that you are not concious of "subconcious".

Answer 5

Basically . Id is your basic animalistic drives (hunger, reproduction, anger). Ego are your fears and morals (ex: I should not eat cookies because mother will be anger with me) , Super Ego works to find a balance between Id and Ego (ex. I will eat one cookie after I excersise),

Answer 6

Freud, the 'father of psychoanalysis' changed into between the first psychologists, and doing organisation in Vienna in the latter 1800's. maximum of his sufferers were prosperous and higher center type center age women human beings, who got here in with issues which contain pressure, melancholy, sleeplessness, paranoia, panic assaults, phobias and so on. In exploring those issues and getting affected human being history Freud may take them lower back over their lives in all intimate element each and every of the beforehand to even as they were raised as children and in puberty. As he did so he got here upon some commonalities of all (maximum) of them even as they were children or youngsters of factors that were 'vast' significant to them of their progression, and were 'conflicts' (troubling/ unresolved), frequently with regards to sex and gender....Jealously and competition with their moms, secretly wishing to interchange their mom with their father, sexual sights to the fathers, the fathers sexual charm (or moves) in route of his daughters, the conflict between seeing their body as both animal and 'dirty' (the bathroom and sexual aspects)....and being advised and believing they were eye-catching, and a variety of of different extra examples. those kinds of factors Freud got here upon were 'repressed' and locked away interior those peoples personalities/ ideas, as they were merely too embarrassing for human beings to take care of or not conventional by using society (highly by using conservative Victorian society). The crux then, of Freud's theory changed into that he had got here upon and traced by using the sufferers recitation of their lives, how those repressed conflicts/ embarrassments had morphed over the years to their sub-wakeful (not actively seen or realized anymore), and from there got here out because the basis reason for the middle age pressure/ paranoia/ melancholy and so on. So, that therapy of those human beings for his or her modern-day issues at say, age 50, changed into to 'regress' them lower back to even as they were 15 or 7 and the conflict 1st began which could over the years develop into their issue. by using doing this and they information it in the open, they could be cured. merely excellent i am going to do, you should write a e book on it, possibly someone can do extra acceptable.

Answer 7

yes i mind