Sigmund Freud The Father Of Freudian Psychology

Layton Fitch Literary Theory Paper Sigmund Freud is the father of Freudian Psychology. He is considered a founding father of psychoanalysis and came up with the verbal psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud change the way we view childhood, personality, memory, sexuality and therapy. Throughout history, other doctors have added on to Freud s theories but at the same time remembering whose theories they are. Freuds theory of psychoanalysis focuses on the unconscious aspects of personality. His theories consist of unconscious mind, dreams, infantile sexuality, libido, repression, and transference. All of these are still used in todays degrees and still taught in schools. Freud s account of the mind structure consists of id, ego and superego.†¦show more content†¦Not so much the shape or specifics but the statistics of an iceberg to Freud was pictured as a mind. To explain, when you see an iceberg, the only part you can see is the top. But what most people don t know is that only 10% of the iceberg sticks above the water and the rest is under the water where you can t see it. In Freud s image, the conscious world is the ten percent that we know and can see and the unconscious world is what we do not know and can not see. The unconscious mind, as Freud would call it, is locked away in your mind and limits what you see and believe to be conscious. In the theory if you could access your unconscious mind, there would be no end to what you could learn, what you could do and it would enhance everyday life all together. Freuds theory has three parts within it. These parts are the id, ego and superego. id is for someones personality. It also in other terms its considered a persons instincts and their immediate reactions. This means that the id, is the part of a person that works off of pleasure and strives for immediate gratification. The id is the only thing in a person that you have a birth, nobody is born without it, and is also the most unorganized part of the three ( id, ego, superego). The id is what makes you anxious, nervous, act on your instincts and many more. And as a child your id is what completely controls your mind, its what makes you make decisions to avoid pain or