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Sigmund Freud’s Parts of personality: Id, Ego, Superego

Sigmund Freud’s Parts of personality: Id, Ego, Superego. in Lord of the Flies. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939). Author of Psychoanalysis Divided into 3 parts of personality: Id, Ego, and Superego

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Sigmund Freud’s Parts of personality: Id, Ego, Superego

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  1. Sigmund Freud’s Parts of personality:Id, Ego, Superego in Lord of the Flies

  2. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) • Author of Psychoanalysis • Divided into 3 parts of personality: Id, Ego, and Superego • We use what we know about these 3 parts to understand or analyze how or why one behaves the way they do. • Lord of the Flies was written in 1954, and became popular in 1955 during the time when Freud’s parts of personality were all the rage

  3. Levels of Awareness • Conscious Mind: where we are paying attention at the moment: • Thinking processes • Objects of attention • Preconscious Mind includes those things of which we are aware, but where we are not paying attention. • Subconscious Mind: the process and content are out of direct reach of the conscious mind, and thinks and acts independently.

  4. Parts of Personality - Id • Id contains our primitive impulses (thirst, anger, hunger) • According to Freud we were born with this • Based on pleasure principle – wants whatever feels good in the moment, doesn’t consider consequences • Sometimes represented by the devil on the shoulder • Two major instincts: • Eros: the life instinct that motivates people to focus on pleasure-seeking tendencies (e.g., sexual urges). • Thanatos: the death instinct that motivates people to use aggressive urges to destroy.

  5. Parts of Personality - Superego • Superego represents the moral, conscience part of us • Dictates our belief of right and wrong • Sometime represented by an angel sitting on a shoulder, reminding the ego to base actions on how it’ll influence society • The Super ego has a model of an ego ideal, which it uses as a prototype against which to compare the ego (and towards which it encourages the ego to move).

  6. Parts of Personality - Ego • Ego maintains a balance between our impulses (id) and our conscience (superego) • Based on the reality principle • Recognizes needs and consequences • Egos’ job to take care of the id, while considering reality • This part of personality represents our person (with devil on one shoulder and angel on the other), • Ego controls higher mental processes such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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