3. Psychoanalysis
• a method for treating mental illness and also a
theory which explains human behavior.
• Freud believed that events in our childhood
have a great influence on our adult lives,
shaping our personality.
4. The Unconscious Mind
Conscious mind
the small amount of mental
activity we know about
Preconscious mind
things we could be aware of
if we wanted or tried
Unconscious mind
things we are unaware of
and can not become aware of
5. Personality Theory According to Freud
• Personality is defined as our characteristic pattern
of thinking, feeling, and acting.
• Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective proposed that
childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations
influence personality.
7. The Id
- First to develop (present from birth)
- Basic instincts
- Driven by pleasure principle
- Entirely unconscious and includes instinctive and primitive
behaviors
8. The Ego
- Develops from the id
- Functions in the conscious, preconscious, and
unconscious mind
- Based on reality principle
- Mostly in the conscious
- Ego's goal is to satisfy the demands of the id in a safe a
socially acceptable way.
9. The Ego
- Freud compared the id to a horse and the ego to the
horse’s rider. The horse provides power and motion, the
rider provides direction and guidance. Without its rider, the
horse would wander wherever it wished and do whatever it
pleased. The rider gives the horse directions and
commands to get it where it wants it to go.
- Keeps you grounded in reality and prevents id and
superego from pulling you too far toward your most basic
urges or moralistic virtues.
10. Superego
- Begins to emerge at around age five
- Our sense of right and wrong
- Provides guidelines for making judgments
- moral principle
- Has two parts (conscience and ego
- conscience
- ego ideal
- both in the conscious and unconscious
13. Why is the study of Freud’s theory
important for a future teacher?
• If the teachers teach with the awareness of
functioning id, ego, and superego, they will
understand the functioning of their psyche and
see and understand, to some extend, why
students behave the way they do.
