Thursday, February 17, 2011

Theories of personality...


I just love Freud!!! Let this article be a little light brightening to our "spotless minds"....

A multi-dimensioned nature of person and diversity of his social relations determine a diversity of theoretic approaches to personality. One of them is the psychological analysis of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). He considered a person as a hedonist, as striving for getting satisfaction, with the society as a system of constraints and taboos. According to S. Freud, personality has three structures: the Id, the Ego, and the Superego. The Id consists of instincts, basically sexual. It is totally unconscious and has no contact with reality. As children experience the demands and constraints of reality, a new structure of personality emerges – the Ego. It is called the executive branch of personality because it uses reasoning to make decisions. The Id and the Ego have no morality. They do not take into account whether something is right or wrong. The highest structure is the Superego which is the moral branch of personality as it takes into account whether something is right or wrong that’s why it is seen as norms of the society. The Superego is what is often referred to as “conscience. ”The Id and the Superego are most aggressive branches. Attacking human psyche (the Ego) from both sides they make life rough for the Ego and give birth to a neurotic type of human behaviour. For instance, your Ego might say, “I will have sex only occasionally and be sure to take the proper divcautions because I don’t want the intrusion of a child in the development of my career. ”However, your Id is saying, “I want to be satisfied; sex is pleasurable. ”Your Superego is at work, too: “I feel guilty about having sex before I’m married. ”Personality becomes neurotic as it is constantly defending from public divssure and conflicting with the social milieu. As soon as the society develops, the highest structure (the Superego) inevitably increases and becomes more massive and heavier, that’s why S. Freud considered the history of mankind as history of increasing psychosis.

I think the example brought above is too practical.... but it's the truth! Our Ego struggles every single day, it is always tempted and is always in hot-bed of tensions (by the way, always wanted to use this expression :) ). And it strongly affects our society... most of the time as life shows, as our society pictures, Superego is suppressed by the attacking Id... And no, I am not being pessimistic, I am just sad, that I, myself, can also be listed in the raw of suppressed Superegos.... :/

1 comment:

  1. Иногда сидя дома в одиночестве я думая .... Я думаю о жизни .... И прихожу к тому что жизнь, жизнь сома по себе она бессмысленна ... Вечная суета, стремления быть первым, заработать кучу денег ... Ну да и что, что в конце, вы заберете это все с собой .... Жизнь это нить, и при том нить очень плохого качества, которая может оборваться в каждый момент. Но знаете, вам может показаться что мои мысли противоречивы ... Но в жизни есть кое что очень ценное для меня, что то очень особенное то ради чего я хочу жить. Та ради кого я могу умереть. Та ради которой я пойду на все .... Та которую мне послала судьба .... Я некогда до прошлой зимы не был не в ком так уверен ... Не было не кого кто бы настолько заполнил мою жизнь ... Если вы спросите меня что помогает тебе летать, что помогает тебе верить что завтра будет лучше чем вчера я отвечу ОНА !!! Та единственная, та которую я нашел, Та которая мне дороже всех, Та самая с которой я хочу жить и на земле и на небесах ... Та самая которую я люблю больше жизни ....

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