Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychologist born in 1856 who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He is known for developing psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and analyst to uncover unconscious desires and repressed memories. Freud theorized that the mind contains three elements - the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. The unconscious contains drives and instincts not readily accessible to awareness that influence behavior.

1. Sherhan S. Abdurahman
Francis Raphael Monera

2. Sigmund Freud
Learning Theories

3. Biography
 Name: Sigmund Freud
 Birth Date: May 6, 1856
 Death Date: September 23, 1939
 Place of Birth: Freiberg, Moravia (now Czech Republic)
 Place of Death: London, England
 Nationality: Austrian
 Gender: Male
 Occupations: psychologist, author, psychoanalyst

4. Psychoanalysis
 a method of analyzing psychic phenomena and treating
emotional disorders that involves treatment sessions
during which the patient is encouraged to talk freely
about personal experiences and especially about early
childhood and dreams

5. Conscious
 is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your
present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies,
feelings, what have you done.
 Having an awareness of one's environment and one's
own existence, sensations, and thoughts.

6. Preconscious
 “Available memory”
 anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories
you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily
bring to mind.
 not present in consciousness but capable of being recalled
without encountering any inner resistance or repression

7. Unconscious
 It includes all the things that are not easily available to
awareness such as our drives or instincts.
 Simply not aware of what you are doing.

8. ID
 Instincts or drives
 Also called as wishes
 Keeps working with the pleasure principle
 It doesn't "know" what it wants in any adult sense; it
just knows that it wants it and it wants it now.

9. EGO
 Some of the ID becomes ego
 Functions in reality by means of its consciousness
 it searches for objects to satisfy the wishes that id
creates

10. Super Ego
 as the ego struggles to keep the “id” happy, it meets
with obstacles in the world. It occasionally meets
with objects that actually assist it in attaining its
goals. And it keeps a record of these obstacles and
aides.
 There are two aspects to the superego: One is the
conscience, which is an internalization of
punishments and warnings. The other is called the
ego ideal. It derives from rewards and positive
models presented to the child.

11. Summary

12. References
 http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html
 http://www.bookrags.com/Sigmund_Freud