PSYCHOANALYSIS THEORY & IT'S THREE LEVELS

ETHICS

SIGMUND FREUD

• He treats patients with psychological disorders

• He helped his patients to recover their memories from traumatic experiences that they repressed from conscious awareness.

SIGMUND FREUD

• He developed a topographical model of the mind.

• He used the analogy of an iceberg to describe the three levels of the mind.

• He described that all the mental processes of which we are aware, can be seen as an iceberg in the ocean.

CONSCIOUS, PRE-CONSCIOUS, UNCONSCIOUS MIND

These are the three (3) levels of mind according to the psychoanalysis theory.

CONSCIOUS MIND

• The thoughts, feelings, and perception

• An idea or opinion produced by thinking, occurring suddenly in the mind.

• Ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

CONSCIOUS MIND

Examples: Communicating, answering for a normal question, the way we eat and taste, familiarization.

CONSCIOUS MIND

Also known as the short-term memory

PRE-CONSCIOUS MIND

• These are memories stored to become a knowledge, the home of everything we can recall or retrieve from our memory.

PRE-CONSCIOUS MIND

Examples: Memorizing, creativity, imaginations, logical thinking, values, emotions and feelings.

PRE-CONSCIOUS MIND

Also known as the long-term memory

UNCONSCIOUS MIND

• These are the things we are unaware of and can not become aware of.

• Any behavior that the person is not fully aware and lock of self control.

UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Examples: Violent motives, saying bad words, thinking of sexual activities, immoral desires, lying and selfishness. (Act of Immorality)

UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Examples: Shaking of legs while sitting, biting your fingers, playing with your pen while listening to your teachers. (Act of Mannerisms)

ACT OF IMMORALITY

Violent motives, saying bad words, thinking of sexual activities, immoral desires, lying and selfishness.

MANNERISMS

Shaking of legs while sitting, biting your fingers, playing with your pen while listening to your teacher’s.

FREUD’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY (1923)

Freud saw the psyche structured into three parts: the id, ego, and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives. These are systems, not parts of the brain, or in any way physical, but rather hypothetical conceptualizations of important mental functions.

ID

The primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories.

EGO

This element operates as a moral conscience and is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the superego.

SUPEREGO

This element operates as a moral conscience