Purchase Solution

Freud's Id, Ego, and Super-Ego

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Where do you think Freud's Id, Ego, and Super-Ego enter the scheme of his theory on infant development? Do you think an infant (birth to a year) is all Id, or do you think the Ego and Super-Ego are manifested during this time period?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Freud's Id, Ego, and Super-Ego theory is reiterated.

Solution Preview

As you assess where do you think Freud's Id, Ego, and Super-Ego enter the scheme of his theory on infant development, I feel that his assignment of year to personality parts (ID, ego, superego) mostly aligns with what he described in his stages of development:

- "Oral stage, birth to 1 year: Primary source of satisfaction is oral pleasure, such as sucking and eating. The id controls.
- Anal stage, 1 to 3 years: Primary source of pleasure is defecation.
- Beginning of superego and ego
- Phallic ...

Solution provided by:
Stacy Shaneyfelt, MA
Education
  • BS , Slippery Rock University
  • MA, Slippery Rock University
Recent Feedback
  • "thk u"
  • "Thank you. Posted one more.. if you are online pls help. "
  • "thk u"
  • "thk u"
  • "thnk you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud

This quiz explores the personality theory of psychoanalysis, in particular reference to how Freud conceptualized of this theory.

Can you name these types of cognitive distortions?

In each mini-scenario, can you identify the type of cognitive distortion being displayed? All of us are subject to cognitive errors, biases, and distortions throughout our daily lives.

Sigmund Freud

How much do you know about Sigmund Freud's theories? Find out with this quiz!

Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages

Erik Erikson researched eight stages of psychosocial development beginning at birth and ending at death. This quiz challenges your knowledge of each stage, the corresponding age range, and the conflicts present during each stage.

Brain and behaviour

Reviews areas of the brain involved in specific behaviours. This information is important for introductory psychology courses.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Sigmund Freud - Basic Concepts in Couselling

    Explain how one or all of these concepts can be applied in mental health counseling This statement seems to mean that the id-most primitive thinking patterns and instincts, ego-thinking patterns that balance and manage id and superego desires, super-ego-moral

  • 3 parts of the personality according to Freud

    "The Ego controls higher mental processes such as reasoning and problem solving which it uses to solev the Id-Super ego dilemma, creatively finding ways to safely satisfy the Id's basic urges within the constrainsts of the Superego."

  • Freud's theories

    It is the job of the super-ego and ego to harness the desires of the id so they do not become a reality, as most of these unconscious sexual and aggressive desires are not part of normal society.

  • Aspects of Personality

    The Id, the Ego and the Super-ego comes together to create and establish the personality and problems with personality can arise when these 3 are not in harmony.

  • Endopsychic Conflicts

    Currie & Parketon (2007), writes that endopsychic conflict results - "from the id, super ego, and ego fighting for domination of the personality."

  • Freudian Theory

    Freud's examination into these somewhat internal conflicts such as this led him to this final division of the mind into three parts, three conflicting internal tendencies, the "id, ego, and super-ego" (Stevenson, 1996).

  • Freud, Erikson and Piaget

    While Freud's id-ego-super ego construct provides a good framework for understanding the mind, reliance on the subjection of human sexuality to explain behavior is problematic.

  • Freud's theory of defense mechanisms

    As theory predicts, when the ego cannot deal with the demands of the id's desires, the ego's constraints of reality, and the super-ego's own moral standards, anxiety occurs.

  • Influence of the Unconscious

    The mind, according to Freud, is composed of an "id," "ego," and a "super-ego." The id consists of instincts, impulses, and libidinal energies.

View More Related Solutions