The Big Picture

So I was going through my blog statistics and a consistent theme of how people find this blog is searching for things like “Freud relationships” and “Freud”.  Now, I’m not going to claim to be an expert on Freud, but I have learned a bit about him during my time in school.  He’s known as the Father of Psychology, and basically invented the Psychodynamic school of psychology.  Most of his theory’s were based on the unconsious.  He thought that dreams were the road to the unconsious, and that deep down, everyone is full of sexual desires and aggression.One of his more popular theories is of the id, the ego and the superego.

• The id: the unconscious desires
• The ego: the conscious inhibitor
• The superego: the conscience

Basically his theory was that the id tries to fulfill everyone’s deepest desires and is extremely selfish.  The ego on the other hand does everything in its power to stop the id, while the superego makes sure there is a balance between the two. Another interesting theory of Freud’s is the ice-berg theory.  

Using the picture above as a place of reference,  look at the part that’s above the water.  That is what Freud believed to be our conscious thought-level.  Everything underneath the water is our unconcious, full of aggression and sexual desires.

These are just a couple of his theories, and I haven’t really gone that in-depth on them, but if you’re more interested in Freud and other aspects of the psychodynamic school of psychology, I may reread some of my textbooks and add some more detail to my thoughts on him.  He was a very intelligent man, but a lot of his theories aren’t used in modern psychology anymore.

Thanks for reading,
-Ann Onymous 

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