Sigmund Freud, Id, Ego, Superego And Defense Mechanisms

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The Unconscious Component, Id, Ego, and Superego and Defense mechanisms are three important uses in Freud's work of psychology. Each piece of Freud's work a way to understand people's thoughts and the outcome of the thought. Freud was an important Psychologist, because of the theories he used, which had many important meanings behind them. Unconscious component is a belief that many painful childhood experiences are buried in one's dreams, thoughts or fantasies of some kind. For example, if a child was disappointed at his mom when he was younger because he was unable to attend a party than the child will hold a grudge for all of his life. The child might not ever ask his mom to go to a party. The unconscious will base people on their behavior later in life. If the mom never let the child attend the party than the child might not ever want to ask his mom a question about attending an event in the future. Unconscious is the big picture over the id, ego, and superego. Apart from the unconscious component, there is the id, ego and superego model. The model has an importance to people's interactions with the world. The id is considered as the want. The ego is the thought process of the id. The superego is what action is going to be taken, in order to have the want. For example, the girl wants the cookie. The ego is the plan and …show more content…

Three of the defense mechanism that Freud used were displacement, repression, and projection. Displacement is the desire for something. For example, say a little boy whines because he wants ice cream. Repression is when the ego is causing too much pressure. For example, when one's studies for finals, they feel so much pressure due to only focusing on the pressure and stress, not the material. Projection is the impulse you would get from other people. For example, if people ignore you, you might think you have caused a