Sigmund Freud Research Paper

Sigmund Freud's approach to understanding how we develop our personalities is one that makes sense to me. Freud explores the mind, in doing so he discovered the id, ego, and superego as well as the three levels of the mind, being the conscious, preconscious, and most importantly the unconscious to explain why we are the way we are. The id, ego, and superego help to develop personality. The way in which these interact will determine how someone will act in their lives, for example if a child is hungry, will he scream until he is fed of will he wait patiently? The id is responsible for the basic drives while the superego is the moral principle, and in order to have a healthy life the ego must balance these out so that we get what we need while remaining morally sound.
According to Freud, the unconscious is a place where our deepest and most painful memories are stored. These memories that we try to forget have an impact on how we act, possibly having life changing effects on a person, such as the patient with hysteria in the case of Anna-O. There was nothing physically wrong with the patient, the hysteria was surface manifestations caused by unresolved issues that were stored away in her unconscious. Until we work through our issues such as painful memories of the past we will be unable to come to terms with what has happened. It is important to get to the root of the problem or else we will continue to unconsciously act a certain way in order to protect