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Classical (Freudian) Psychoanalysis
Personality Theory
Structure theory: structural component of Freud’s personally theory views the personality as having 3 structures (id, ego, and superego)
Id: present at birth and consists of person’s life ad death instincts, serve source psychic energy.
Life instincts =self-preservation and sexual gratification
Death instincts=destructive, aggressive aspects of personality
Id=pleasure principle/seeks immediate gratification of instinctual drives & needs to avoid tension
Ego: develops at about 6 months in response to id’s inability to gratify all its needs
Operates basis of reality principle: defers gratification of the id’s instincts until an appropriate object is available in reality and it employs secondary process thinking (characterized by realistic, rational thinking and planning)
Primary task: mediate the often conflicting demands of the id and reality and, once it has developed, the superego.
Superego: emerges when child 4-5 y-o and represents an internalization of society’s values and standards as conveyed to the child by parents through rewards and punishments.
Rewards=ego ideal punishment=conscience
In contrast to the ego, which postpones gratification of the id’s instinct, the superego attempts to permanently block the id’s socially-unacceptable drives.
