Cognitive Theories:

Freud’s Psychoanalysis
Learning Objectives:
• Defining what is Psychoanalysis
• Identify what are the structure of personality
• Defense Mechanism
Overview
• A set of philosophical of human nature
• Psychoanalysis is both an approach to therapy and a
theory of personality.
• Emphasizes unconscious motivation the main cause of
behaviour lie in unconscious mind.
How do you explain the
personality of a person?
 Bully
• Threatening to others who are
weaker, smaller.
• Insulting
• Rude
Sigmund Freud
• Born on May 6,1856
• Australian neurologist
• Created Psychopathology
• He was not successful in the
field of medicine.
 Psychoanalysis
 Is a set of theories and therapeutic
techniques that deal in part with the
unconscious mind, and which together
form a method of treatment for mental
disorders.
 Levels of Mental Life

1. Unconscious 2. Preconscious 3. Conscious

Outside of your All information that Current state of
awareness at all you are not awareness.
times. currently aware of
but can be recalled.
Structure of Personality

02 Superego
ID

03

Ego
1. ID
 Predetermines set of psychological needs,
drives, instincts
• Seek pleasure, avoid pain
2. Ego
Awareness of one’s self and ability to interact
with the world.
• Balances id and superego
3. Superego
Internalization of the moral principles/rules of society.
• “conscience”
Sobra yung sukli *

ID: hwag mo na ibalik yung sukli.

Superego: Ibalik mo yan hindi magandang gawain yan

Ego:
Anxiety
 It's your brain's way of reacting to stress and alerting you
of potential danger ahead.
 Types of anxiety

Neurotic anxiety Moral anxiety

1. .
 Id 2.  Superego

Realistic anxiety
3.  Ego
 Neurotic anxiety
It arises when the ego is
threatened by the irrational
demands of id.
 Moral anxiety
It arises when the ego is
threatened by the irrational
demands of superego.
 Realistic anxiety
It arises when the threat is
associated with our wellbeing.
Only the ego can
feel the anxiety
 Defence
Mechanism
DEFENCE MECHANISM
Is an unconscious psychological operation
that functions to protect a person from
anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings
related to internal conflicts and outer
REPRESSION
 Subconsciously blocking ideas or impulses that
are undesirable.
DENIAL
Denial is a type of defense mechanism that
involves ignoring the reality of a situation to
avoid anxiety.
Reaction Formation
 A defense mechanism in which a person
unconsciously replaces an unwanted or anxiety-
provoking impulse with its opposite, often
expressed in an exaggerated or showy way.
Sublimation
 Is a mature type of defense mechanism, in which
socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations
are transformed into socially acceptable actions
or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term
conversion of the initial impulse.
 CONCLUSIO
N
• Psychoanalysis – is based on the concept of unconscious mental representations
that are built up from childhood.

• The Interaction of Id, Ego, and Superego are always dynamic it influences a
persons overall personality and behavior.

• We use Defense mechanism to cope with difficult feelings, thoughts or conflicts

that the ego have a hard time resolving.
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