Comparing Sigmund Freud's The Ego And The Id

Unconscious

In one of Freud’s work “The Ego and the Id, 1923” he made the distinction between the preconscious and the unconscious. He discussed the preconscious as memories and ideas which an individual can bring to consciousness at their own will. He calls the unconscious the ability to provide a chain of reconstruction. The unconscious is not a fact, it’s very liquid meaning it is a hypothesis. The hypothesis does not make the unconscious conscious, instead it gives one a series of conscious mental constructions, which if they existed would produce the same effects. In Freud's famous book “The Interpretation of dreams” (610), He states that the conscious thoughts are written in place on a specific spot in the mind and unconscious in another

Unconscious thoughts can still manage to indirectly shift behavior in one’s self. One issue with dealing with the unconscious is finding its true meaning, and how it became unconscious in the first place. If a traumatic experience caused it to be repressed, then there may be a higher resistance for a patient to willfully express what happened. Freud’s way of digging deep into the unconscious was Dreams. When a subject falls a sleep, they relax their mind and body, and how Freud calls it the rational reality-testing processes of the mind become relaxed. The separation from unconscious and conscious thoughts becomes more transparent. Freud believed that dreams represented ones’ wishful desires, and sometimes the wish is portrayed directly on the dream, but sometimes one must dig a little deeper to find the true meaning. In adults the dreams could often represent repressed experiences from childhood. The Interpretation of

Repression can be a hard topic to define in fully, but in Freud’s Introductory Lessons on Psychoanalysis, (1916-1917) he defines it as “the process by which an act which is admissible to consciousness, therefore, which belongs to the system Pcs., is made unconscious - is pushed back, therefore, into the system Ucs. And we equally speak of repression if the unconscious mental act is altogether forbidden access to the neighboring preconscious system and is turned back at the threshold by the censorship.” Relating this to the pleasure principle earlier spoken about when a repressed pleasurable emotion arises, called return of the repressed, one’s Ego refuses the satisfaction because it recognizes the emotion as dangerous, or non-socially acceptable: Furthermore, censoring non-socially acceptable desires. Freud also stated, “the vicissitude of repression consists in it’s not being allowed by the watchman to pass from the system of the unconscious into that of the pre-conscious.” (1916-17) It is essential to understand this statement from Freud because it allows us to better understand not only repression itself, but it gets an aspect of what Freud called