The research done in “You’re Getting Defensive Again” by Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud claims in their theory that we us different mechanisms of defense to help cope with the very troublesome, anxiety. Sigmund Freud had a belief that the personality of a person was summed up by some components which are the id, the ego, and the super ego. It is said that the id was one of the most rudimentary human impulses of satisfaction that involved thirst, hunger, and sexual impulses. The id unconsciously controlled and sought to satisfy what Freud named the pleasure principles, satisfying all desires no matter what the reason might be or the logic, safety, and principles of all…
The psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality is called: Denial…
To Freud, the mind was a mechanistic energy system that derived mental energy from the physical functioning of the body and constantly attempted to moderate this physical effort or tension by restoring it to a quiet steady (quiescent) state. This energy is not evenly distributed to all human purpose or functioning, and if blocked from expression will manifest itself as anxiety, which through cathartic release, prescribes a least resistant path of action. Because anxiety is painful, the mind attempts to cope with this state through a range of defence mechanisms that alter reality and supress feelings that stimulate this state. The mind and its energies (derived from drives or…
One concept that I learned throughout this course is Freud’s defenses against anxiety. These defense mechanisms are:…
Psychological Egoism insouciantly means the only outcome individuals are capable of desiring and or pursuing is ultimately in his own self-interest. Psychological Egoism can be perceived as reason to Wesley Autrey’s actions on the subway tracks, while contrastingly, the perceived notation that Autrey’s actions were altruistic could be a plausible assumption. I will provide a thorough explanation of Psychological Egoism. Further more I will provide argument to the motivation of Autrey’s actions from the views of both a Psychological Egoist and a non-psychological-egoist. Finally I will argue my point of view that Aultrey’s actions are altruistic.…
Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, believed our personalities have roots to our unconscious, all the ideas, thoughts, and feelings we are not aware of (Morris, G., & Maisto, A., 2005). According to Freud, our personalities consist of three separate structures: the id, the ego, and the superego. ID is the only structure present at birth, and functions according to the pleasure principle (obtain pleasure to avoid pain). The ego, id’s link to the environment, operates on self and reality principle and controls conscious ideas, thoughts and feelings. The superego’s function is to be the moral guardian and aids in normal function within the environment (Morris, G., & Maisto, A., 2005). Freud’s belief is that if the superego rejects impulses from the ego, anxiety occurs often leading to the use of defense mechanisms to reduce the discomfort produced by anxiety. Freud contends that these defense mechanisms occur unconsciously.…
Psychoanalytic perspective is based on Sigmund Frued perspectives about early experiences it focuses on the importance of the unconscious mind which contains thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories/past experiences in which we are unaware of. The id operates on the pleasure principle by satisfying basic urges, needs, and desires. Ego operates on the reality principle, satisfies the id’s desires in ways that it will cause pleasure instead of pain. Superego strives for perfection, positive feelings and negative feelings of guilt. These three systems were interactions of Frued’s view of personality structure. Freud perspective also focused on psychosexual stages which is the childhood stages of development. Defense mechanisms are methods of reducing anxiety. This perspective could account for the development of introverted and an extroverted personality…
Another psychological explanation of OCD is the psychodynamic approach suggested by Freud (1917) which assumes OCD arises when unacceptable wishes and impulses coming from the id are only partially repressed. These partially repressed thoughts then can provoke anxiety within a person. OCD sufferers use ego-defence mechanisms in order to reduce the feeling of anxiety associated with the impulses and wishes. There are three main ego defence mechanisms. Isolation is a defence mechanism where an attempt is made to isolate oneself from undesirable wishes and impulses. The id and defence mechanism fight for predominance and when the id succeeds the impulses intrude as obsessional thoughts. When isolation is…
Today there are different pressured than during Freud’s time. For example, there has been the advent of new recognized conditions, for example PTSD. This is a type of condition that has such a detrimental effect on human behavior that it can even block the “fight or flight” reflex.…
Psychological egoism is the theory that voluntary actions are always motivated by a reward to oneself, whether directly or indirectly. Some people immediately object to the theory because there are plenty of cases where people help others when there seems to be no reward. A proponent of psychological egoism would stress that there seems to be no reward, and that the person is in fact benefiting in some way. In many cases, the proponent of psychological egoism would offer that the "good feeling" a person gets after helping someone is the reward they were seeking, and thus the reason they helped the other person. Another possibility is that a person will help someone else because he or she sees some future benefit for helping, such as future…
Shaver, Robert, "Egoism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/egoism/>.…
Psychological egoism claims that people do only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism is the normative ethical stance that people ought to do what is in their self-interest.…
People having problems coping with their traumatic event will use certain defense mechanisms, from repression to substance abuse, tailspin into alcoholism, and/or avoid anything that person…
What is an ego status? Some may define it as a natural instinct of self-preservation or the “I” or self of any person. According to Janet Helms article “White Attitudes and Racial Harmony,” she describes ego statuses, as ways of organizing racial information from ones environment. The six ego statuses she talks about are contact, disintegration, reintegration, pseudo-independence, immersion/emersion, and autonomy. Another article I read that connects to Helms article is called “What set you from, fool?” by Paul Beatty. Reading both articles I realized that in Beatty’s piece he also goes through some of the ego statuses Helms mentions in her article.…
Psychoanalytic personality development revolves around the idea that human functioning is motivated by unconscious drives. These instinctual drives, called the life and death instincts, are sexual and aggressive drives that humans feel an innate need to satisfy. According to Freud,…