Freudian psychology

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Unlike the conscious mind, the unconscious mind includes thoughts outside of awareness. Learn about Freud's three levels of awareness: the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious minds.

Proposed by Sigmund Freud believed that our behavior is determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivation, and biological and instinctual drives.Freud's psychoanalytic views personality as consisting of ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO.The main goal of this therapy is to strengthen the ego and make the unconscious conscious. This therapy proposes that a person's past experiences should be a guide towards his present. The therapy is widely known as the longest therapy that takes 5-7 years.

Unconsciousness Unconsciousness: (General commonly available definition) The part of the psyche lying before the consciousness and therefore not easily raised into consciousness due to its much faster rate of processing. In Freudian psychology, the unconscious cannot be directly observed with the conscious mind due to its much faster rate of processing ability which the consciousness cannot interpret as its information processing abilities are much slower. It has its own processes. Which is…

This post looks at Freudian psychoanalytic theory, including the id/ego/superego, libido, and the stages of psychosexual development.

Freud's lecture on the anatomy of the unconscious in his psychoanalytic theory