Sigmund Freud Mindmap

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  • Sigmund Freud
    • Biography
      • Freud was born to Galician Jewish Parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg
        • Left Austria in 1938 to escape the Nazis
          • Married Martha Bernays, and had six children
            • Died in exile in 1939 in the United Kingdom
      • Qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at University of Vienna
        • Appointed a docent in neuropathology
          • Became an affiliated professor in 1902
      • Set up clinical practice in Vienna in 1886
      • Married Martha Bernays, and had six children
        • Died in exile in 1939 in the United Kingdom
    • Id, Ego, Super-ego
      • Id
        • Conscious, rational driven by 'reality principle'
          • Serves as a mediator between the two compelling parts
          • prevents us from acting on our basic urges, which are created by the Id
          • Works to balance our moral and idealistic standards that are created by our Superego
      • Ego
        • Unconcious,insatiable instincts which people are born with
          • Pleasure orientated and selfish
          • Responds directly, and immediately, to the instincts,
          • Unaffected by reality, logic or the everyday world
      • Super-Ego
        • Concerned with morals, right and wrong
          • Develops through socialisation
          • appeals to the pathos (evokes pity or sadness) and emotion
    • The Unconcious
      • plays an important role in psychoanalysis
      • does not think or reason independently
        • Merely obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind
      • Reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness.
        • Contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict
          • does not think or reason independently
            • Merely obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind
    • Repression
      • Unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious
      • Forced out of conscious into our unconscious
      • Can include traumatic experiences, unresolved issues etc.
    • Guilt
      • Result of a struggle between the ego and the superego
      • Rejected the role of God as punisher in times of illness or rewarder in time of wellness
        • Result of a struggle between the ego and the superego
      • "the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt...as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery."

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