Psychodynamic theory

1. Freud believed that our personality "psyche contained several parts that are constantly at war with each other
   1. Model of personality
      1. ID
         1. - Represents our basic desires - pleasure principle -includes sexual urges/dominance and aggression - part of our self we are unaware of
      2. EGO / reality principle
         1. -part of our self in touch with the outside world - part of our personality that makes decisions based on demands of the id and restriction of the superego.
      3. SUPEREGO
         1. - includes moral principle ideas of what we ought to be like - these principles are learnt from out parents and upbringing.

Nota:

• Through defence mechanisms the psychoanalytical term of unconscious methods the ego uses to distort reality, thereby protecting it from anxiety - According to Freud, the ego has developed what he calls defence mechanisms to cover for the wild demands of the ID, which would rarely be socially acceptable

1. Repression - blocking threatening memories from conscious mind
2. Projection - putting feelings onto someone else.
6. Denial - refusing to admit something unpleasant is happening