Psychoanalitic Therapy
PSYCHOANALITIC THERAPY
Psychoanalytic theories describe normative social and emotional development and explain individual development pathways and variations from this norm.
Sigmund Freud was the originator of psychoanalysis. His views have influence the views of most of the contemporary theories.
The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, to make the unconscious conscious.
Psychoanalysis divides the personality in three systems:
Id: is the impulsive and unconscious part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts. The personality of the newborn child is all id. The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure, when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain. The id is not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world. On the contrary, it operates on the pleasure principle which is the idea that every wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences.
Ego or I: Initially the ego is “that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world” The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world.
Ideally the ego works by reason whereas the id is chaotic and totally unreasonable. The ego operates according to the reality principle, working our realistic ways of satisfying the id’s demands, often compromising or postponing satisfaction.
Like the id, the ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain but unlike the id the ego is concerned with devising a realistic strategy to obtain pleasure. Freud made the analogy of the id being the horse while the ego is the rider.
Often the ego is weak relative to the head-strong id and the best the ego can do is stay on, pointing the id in the right direction and claiming some credit at the end as if the action were its own. The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is good simply if it achieves its
Psychoanalytic theories describe normative social and emotional development and explain individual development pathways and variations from this norm.
Sigmund Freud was the originator of psychoanalysis. His views have influence the views of most of the contemporary theories.
The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, to make the unconscious conscious.
Psychoanalysis divides the personality in three systems:
Id: is the impulsive and unconscious part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts. The personality of the newborn child is all id. The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure, when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain. The id is not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world. On the contrary, it operates on the pleasure principle which is the idea that every wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences.
Ego or I: Initially the ego is “that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world” The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world.
Ideally the ego works by reason whereas the id is chaotic and totally unreasonable. The ego operates according to the reality principle, working our realistic ways of satisfying the id’s demands, often compromising or postponing satisfaction.
Like the id, the ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain but unlike the id the ego is concerned with devising a realistic strategy to obtain pleasure. Freud made the analogy of the id being the horse while the ego is the rider.
Often the ego is weak relative to the head-strong id and the best the ego can do is stay on, pointing the id in the right direction and claiming some credit at the end as if the action were its own. The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is good simply if it achieves its