Freud's Theory of Personality

Freud's Theory of Personality

1. Id

   • First part to develop
   • Instructive part of the personality
   • pleasure principle
   • Biological component

2. Ego

   • Rational part of the personality
   • It's through the ego, the id get what it wants
   • Reality principle
   • Psychological component
   • Develops second
   • Ego has to satisfy both id and superego

3. Superego

   • Last to develop
   • Morality principle
   • Developed during the first five years of childhood
   • Social component

4. Unconscious

   • difficult to retrieve information
   • Largest part of our mind
   • Can't access

5. Conscious

   • Contains what we know

6. Preconscious

   • We don't know but can access

7. Defense Mechanisms

   • Repression
     • Not remembering something as it cannot be accessed
   • Displacement
     • Putting thoughts and wishes onto someone other than the real focus
   • Denial
     • Refusing to acknowledge threatening thoughts
   • Projection
     • Saying that threatening thoughts/emotions are someone else's thoughts/emotions
   • Regression
     • Going back to a childhood state