Vignette analysis I The psychoanalytical school views that psychological problems are rooted in the unconscious mind. Even though, the typical causes of such problem include unresolved issues during the early life of the person or repressed trauma (Gary VandenBos, Edward Meidenbauer, & Julia Frank-McNeil, 2014). In an effort to use Freudian theory to the case of Joe, we should believe that Freud’s theory offered two potential explanations for general unhappiness which would be put on to Joe’s depression. Freud identifies the body as a mechanistic energy system, the mind is a part of the body, and the mind has its own energy system. In his view, mental energy remains stored in the mind, under certain situation the energy associated with an idea …show more content…
Freudian analysis based on his idea of the interrelationship of mind and mental, emotional or motivational forces with the mind where the interaction between them would shape the personality. Freud divides mind into three main parts: conscious, subconscious and unconscious, however he emphasized on the relationship between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. Furthermore, the unconscious store ideas that are traumatic as if they were remain conscious, those traumatic ideas or event would cause psychological problems. This means, our brain stores those traumatic events in the unconscious or repress them from the conscious. At the same time, our conscious thoughts are determined by the content of our unconscious. This would explain Joe’s anxiety as in the case of Joe, his feeling of anxiety is a conscious feeling reflecting his unconscious content. His early life trauma represented by his father absence, feeling alone in the family, his mother sickness, and disappearance of his father for the second represent a traumatic life event for Joe where he stored or suppressed those events I his unconscious, but his consciousness is feeling anxious based on the content of this unconscious (Cervone, Daniel, and Lawrence A. Pervin, …show more content…
The anxiety in Joe case is the function of ego where the anxiety represents a painful emotion that alert the ego to danger so the ego can act. When the ego acts, it would create or produce different defense mechanism which represent a strategic effort by the ego to cope with the socially unacceptable impulses of the id. (Cervone, Daniel, and Lawrence A. Pervin, 2013). One of these defense mechanisms is the repression where Joe dismisses ideas or wishes from his