PSYCHOANALYS

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Specific Objectives

After this lesson, Students shall be able to;

1. Explain personality in terms of conscious and

unconscious forces
2. Interpret Freud's Iceberg Metaphor of Human Psyche
3. Understand oneself and devise ways on how to improve
personality
LET’S GET
STARTED
Activity 1. Get to know yourself better. Write in the appropriate space the needed information.

MEMORIES

ATTITUDE

FEARS
Process Questions:

1. Which of the three components of the self is the driving force

for your study? Why?
2. Why do you think you have such attitude ?
3. Was it difficult for you to recall significant memories?
PSYCHOANALYSIS
•Every person has his own identity as far as personality is concerned (Javir,Costales,Rivas,
2002)
•Personality comes from Latin word “Persona” which means “Actor’s face mask” .
•Personality therefore is the “mask” worn as a person moves from situation to situation during
a lifetime.

• When we go through the different stages in life we are confronted with issues arising from our
interaction with one another and we try to question the kind of personality we possess.
• Panopio(1994) identifies biological inheritance, geographic environment, cultural and social
environment as determining factors contributing to personality formation.
 FREUD COMPARED MIND TO AN ICEBERG
•In the 20th century, Sigmund Freud introduced Psychoanalysis
which radically transformed human self understanding.
•Freud explained the individuals are only aware of a small portion
of the forces that drive their behavior.
•From his perspective, human have conscious, preconscious and an
unconscious mind (Siegfried , 2014).
•Freud explains that personality results from the clash of three
forces: the Ego, the Superego, and the Id.
•Psychoanalysis is the process of using what we know about these
three parts of someone’s personality to analyze the ways that person
behave ( Lapsley, and Stey, 2011).
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist
and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical
method for evaluating and treating pathologies
seen as originating from conflicts in the
psyche, through dialogue between patient and
psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of
mind and human agency derived from it.
 FREUD’S MODEL OF THE
MIND
There are two Freudian Models of the mind: the Topographical and Structural Models.

FREUD’S STRUCTURE OF THE MIND

Ego
Superego

Id
In Freud’s Topographical model of the mind, be described the features of the mind structure and function using the
analogy of an Iceberg to describe the three levels of mind.

CONSCIOUS
Conscious (10%)

Preconscious PRECONSCIOUS
(Superego)
(10-15%)

Ego

Unconscious UNCONSCIOUS
(Id) (75-80%)
Freud’s applied these three systems to his structure of the personality or, psyche – the Id, ego, and superego. Here the id is
regarded as entirely unconscious, the ego and superego have conscious, preconscious and unconscious aspect.

Below is the summary of Freud’s model of the mind (Siegfried, 2014).

TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL STRUCTURAL MODEL

Conscious mind Ego (Reason….I think)

-Contains information of which we are aware to any given -Part of the personality that maintains a balance between
moment: impulses (our Id) and our conscience (our Superego)
Anything that is thought, perceived or understood resides at
this level. -Based on the reality principle

-understands that other people have needs and desires and that
sometimes being impulsive or selfish can hurt us in the end.
Pre-conscious
-Contains the memories and thoughts that are easily recalled,
ready to break into consciousness at any moment
Example: Memories, Stored Knowledge
Unconscious
-the primary source of human behaviors
-personal information of which we are NOT aware; the
drivers, urges, wishes and thoughts of all of our past
experience,
All these threaten to destabilize the conscious mind if they
surface.
Example: Violent, motives, fears, immoral urges, shameful
experience, unacceptable sexual desires.
Superego (Duties…. I should)
-Part of the personality that represents the conscience, the
moral parts of us
-Develops due to the moral and ethical restraints placed on
us by our caregivers. It dictates our belief of right and wrong.
ID (I want)
-Contains our primitive impulses – such as Thirst, Anger,
Hunger – and the desire for instant gratification or release.
-We are born with our Id
-An important part of our personality, because as newborns,
it allows us to get our basic needs met
-based on our pleasure principle no consideration of the
others
LET CHECK YOUR PROGRESS

1. Filled in the Diagram with characteristics of your personality based on Freud’s Topographical and Structural personality.
2. What does Freud’s personality theories mean on human behavior and social interactions?

3. Considering the kind of personality you have right now, which of these would you improve? How would you do this?