Primary Concepts of Psychoanalysis

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COURSE ASSESSMENT: BASIC CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS NAME: JISSY JACOB STUDENT NUMBER: 10102292 INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis refers a set of psychotherapeutic and psychological theories and which are associated with techniques. The aim of psychoanalysis is to remove repressed emotions and experiences, to make the conscious mind from unconscious. Psychoanalysis is specially used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. One who think or talk about psychoanalysis, suddenly mind goes to remember the great personality who is none other than Sigmund Freud, the Father of psychoanalysis. Freud explained human personality comprises of three parts namely the id, ego, and superego which help to form complex human behaviours. In this essay the writer focuses to shed light towards some thoughts like egoism, narcissism, love, illness and so on. Predominantly, the writer would like to co relate the difference between egoism and narcissism. Then the following paragraphs make an attempt to evaluate the Freud’s concept of narcissism. Lastly, the writer critically evaluate the statement i.e., “ A strong egoism is a protection against falling ill, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order not to fall ill, and we are bound to fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love”. TERMINOLOGIES  EGO: The ego is one of the personality components which are responsible for dealing with reality. The ego develops from the id and it can be expressed to the real world. The ego function s both in conscious, preconscious and unconscious mind. It is based on the reality principle which struggle to satisfy desires of the ids.  NARCISSISM: “The attitude of a person who treats his own body in the same way in which the body of a sexual objec... ... middle of paper ... ...n. Love is assessed by the activity of ego. Loving oneself is longing and belongingness and it lowers self -regard. Freud said if love does not happen there will be a illness. So here the quotes comes “A strong egoism is a protection against falling ill, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order not to fall ill, and we are bound to fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love”. CRITIQUE Sigmund Freud explained about narcissism and he point out that the strong egoism is a protection against ill. Here I would like to point out that absence of love, it is not mean that the person love, it can be person, object, place or anything definitely make the person to become ill and all the concept of hysteria, neurosis are the examples. ‘Love’ is a strong emotion of the human being and it also act as a remedy to prevent and treat illness. CONCLUSION

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