Reflection 9

I believe that Freud had many great ideas about the mind. He also shaped many theories about the mind. His work is extremely important because it was one of the first findings on how the mind works. His views on personality are widely accepted because they seem to be correct through observation. Also as the professor said in class earlier, we should not throw out everything that Freud because some of the things he said were considered ridiculous. We must also take into consideration that he also gave of many insights into the subconscious and unconscious mind that no other psychologist in his field has given us.
Freud believes that there are two factors that affect every single thing that we do in life. He believes these two factors are sex and aggression. I personally do not agree with this. I believe there is much more to life than sex and aggression. I believe that love is a guiding factor. I do feel that sex and aggression are guiding factors but I also believe there are many guiding factors and sex and aggression are not top on that list. Freud explains more of what he means by saying that these factors are our need to procreate and protect ourselves. Freud also talks about the Id, Ego, and Superego. Each one of these driving factors guides our actions through life. Each was has greater priority over different phases in our lives. The Id is what we all are born with. This is what allows us to get our basic needs met. He gives the example of babies trying to get their needs met and having on regards for our needs. The example he gave was that babies do not care if we are sleeping. We develop the Ego by age three. The Ego realizes that what we do affect others so we learn to think before we act. The Ego main focus is to satisfy the id but we learn to control to think about our actions first. The Superego develops at age five and that is what regulates our morals. Freud believes the Ego is the most important driving factor and if the Id is what’s in control then are impulses will guide our actions. On the other hand, if the Superego is our number one guiding factor then our morals will guide us.
Freud believes that our emotions are in our unconscious minds, which is not accessible to us. He believes that our conscious mind is used as our perspective on the world. The subconscious mind is what we use as our database to retrieve information.