This paper examines Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories on the human psyche by beginning at the developmental stage of a newborn.
This paper examines Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories on the human psyche by beginning at the developmental stage of a newborn. The paper describes the ideas of the unconscious id, the ego and the superego. It also illustrates Freud’s use of psychoanalysis to cure neuroses and the function of dreams and free association therapy.
Sigmund Freud enumerates that the human psyche consists of the unconscious id, the ego (which is partly conscious and partly unconscious), and the superego (also partly conscious and partly unconscious). At first, a newborn has only an id, which consists of blind drives that seek satisfaction. In a few months, the ego is developed when the newborn experiences resistance and frustration of its drives by the outside world: it realizes that it is separate from that external world and develops a sense of self.