Freuds Personality Theory
Psychology 342
Fall semester -2012
Take Home Mid-Term Examination
Professor John P. Wilson
Rickia Malone
Id #2491197
Freud’s theory of personality and behavior exemplifies a deterministic view of mental life and how they contribute to different levels of human thought. Not only does his research and theories influence modern psychology and psychoanalysis, they set the tone for motivation. According to Freud’s innovation in the field of human mental health; the unconscious and unconscious plays a determining role in our thought process that can dictate our behavior. These two mind bogglers (unconscious and unconscious) are the opposite of one another and are distinct in their components. The conscious level is the level on which all of our thought processes operate by being perceived, thought of, or understood. The unconscious level contains repressed thoughts and past experiences, which can lead to mental anguish, high arousal and anxiety.
The relation between the unconscious and conscious exert pressure on awareness that an individual is demanded to feel. For example using two rooms as a metaphor, the conscious level of an individual’s mental apparatus is represented by the small room. The larger room represents the unconscious which is full to capacity. For mental stimuli to surpass unto the smaller room, it must pass through the doorway separating the two rooms. At the door way stands a censor who determines what mental events have allowed entry. Although some stimuli have gained entry Freud says that they can be driven out, due to high levels of anxiety or simply because they contain mental excitations that are unacceptable to sustain homeostasis. The repression of such stimuli protects us from the unpleasantness residing in the conscious; if crossed unpleasant excitations might produce anxiety, embarrassment or punishment.
One key factor that Freud stresses is that these unpleasant
Fall semester -2012
Take Home Mid-Term Examination
Professor John P. Wilson
Rickia Malone
Id #2491197
Freud’s theory of personality and behavior exemplifies a deterministic view of mental life and how they contribute to different levels of human thought. Not only does his research and theories influence modern psychology and psychoanalysis, they set the tone for motivation. According to Freud’s innovation in the field of human mental health; the unconscious and unconscious plays a determining role in our thought process that can dictate our behavior. These two mind bogglers (unconscious and unconscious) are the opposite of one another and are distinct in their components. The conscious level is the level on which all of our thought processes operate by being perceived, thought of, or understood. The unconscious level contains repressed thoughts and past experiences, which can lead to mental anguish, high arousal and anxiety.
The relation between the unconscious and conscious exert pressure on awareness that an individual is demanded to feel. For example using two rooms as a metaphor, the conscious level of an individual’s mental apparatus is represented by the small room. The larger room represents the unconscious which is full to capacity. For mental stimuli to surpass unto the smaller room, it must pass through the doorway separating the two rooms. At the door way stands a censor who determines what mental events have allowed entry. Although some stimuli have gained entry Freud says that they can be driven out, due to high levels of anxiety or simply because they contain mental excitations that are unacceptable to sustain homeostasis. The repression of such stimuli protects us from the unpleasantness residing in the conscious; if crossed unpleasant excitations might produce anxiety, embarrassment or punishment.
One key factor that Freud stresses is that these unpleasant