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PHYSHOANALYSIS
 Sigmund Freud
What is Psychoanalysis?
 method of understanding mental life: a psychological theory and therapeutic method
developed by Sigmund Freud, based on the ideas that mental life functions on both
conscious and unconscious levels and that childhood events have a powerful
psychological influence throughout life.
3 Aspects of Psychoanalysis
1. The Id
 The id can be equated with the unconscious of common usage, which is the reservoir of
the instinctual drives of the individual, including biological urges, wishes, and affective
motives. The id is dominated by the pleasure principle, through which the individual is
pressed for immediate gratification of his or her desires.
 E.g. Secret, Pleasures, desires, sensual desires.
 These can be controlled.
 In Freud’s later writing, he tended more toward psychological rather than biological
conceptualization of these drives.
2. The Ego
 one of three main divisions of the mind, containing consciousness and memory and
involved with control, planning, and conforming to reality.
 Behavior and thoughts people seen or observed by all members of the community.
 How people dignify themselves.
3. The Superego
 according to Freudian theory, the part of the mind that acts as a conscience to the ego,
developing moral standards and rules through contact with parents and society.
 Accords to what the society or State Apparatuses expects.
 It is our conscience.
The Mind as an Iceberg
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, compared the human mind to an iceberg. The tip above
the water represents consciousness, and the vast region below the surface symbolizes the unconscious
mind. Of Freud’s three basic personality structures—id, ego, and superego—only the id is totally
unconscious.
Social Science and Psychoanalysis
 The contribution of psychoanalysis is essential to understanding the dynamics between individual
and society.
 Among other problems, this is concerned with the language and the interpretation of our mind,
the character of social institutions, the explication of social practices and processes, the question
of social transformation and the like.
 The reproduction Social life, however, is never only a matter of “practices” and “processes”: it is
also created and lived within, in depths of an inner world, of our most personal needs, passion
and desires. Love, empathy, guilt, shame, anxiety: no study of social life can be successfully carried
out, or meaningfully created, without reference to human element of agency.