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Freud's Theories. The foundation of Freud's contribution to modern psychology is his emphasis on the unconscious aspects of the human psyche.. Like iceberg, the human mind is structured so that its great weight and density lie beneath the surface (below the level of consciousness). Freud's second major premise is that all human behavior is motivated ultimately by what we would call sexuality. .
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1. The Psychological Approach: Freud
2. Freuds Theories The foundation of Freuds contribution to modern psychology is his emphasis on the unconscious aspects of the human psyche.
3. Freuds second major premise is that all human behavior is motivated ultimately by what we would call sexuality.
4. Freuds third premise is that because of the powerful social taboos attached to certain sexual impulses, many of our desires and memories are repressed ( that is, actively excluded from conscious awareness).
5. Several corollaries of Freudian theory The id is the reservoir of libido, the primary source of all psychic energy. It fulfills the primordial life principle, which Freud considers to be the pleasure principle.
6. Ego is the rational governing agents of the psyche. Though the ego lacks the strong vitality of the id, it regulates the instinctual drives of the id so that they may be released in nondestructive behavioral patterns.
7. Acting either directly or through the ego, the superego serves to repress or inhibit the drives of the id, to block of and thrust back into the unconscious those impulses toward pleasure that society regards as unacceptable.
8. Whereas the id is dominated by the pleasure principle and the ego by the reality principle, the superego is dominated by the morality principle.
9. The Psychological Approach in Practice Ernest Jones points out that Hamlet as a psychoneurotic who suffers from manic-depressive hysteria combined with an abulia all of which may be traced to the heros severely repressed Oedipal feelings.
10. the character of the ghost and Claudius are dramatic projections of Hamlets own conscious-unconscious ambivalence toward the father figure. The ghost represents the conscious ideal of fatherhood. His view of Claudius represents Hamlets repressed hostility toward his father as a rival for his mothers affection.
11. Rebellions Against the Father in Huckleberry Finn Miss Watson and pap Finn both represent social and legal morality. In the light of such authority both Miss Watson and pap Finn may be said to represent the superego. In this sense, it is to escape the oppressive tyranny and cruel restraints of the superego that Huck and Jim take flight on the river.
12. Lacking a real mother, Huck finds his symbolic mother in the river; in Freudian terms, he returns to the womb. From this matrix he undergoes a series of symbolic deaths and rebirths, punctuated structurally by the episodes on land.
13. Young Goodman Brown: Id Verses Superego The village is a place of light and order, both social and spiritual order. Brown leaves Faith behind the town at sunset and returns to Faith in the morning. The journey into the wildness is taken in the night.
14. The village, as a place of social and moral order is analogous to Freuds superego, conscience, the morally inhibiting agent of the psyche; the forest, as a place of wild, untamed passions and terrors, has the attributes of the Freudian id.
15. Related Sources about Freud Maier, Norman R. F. A Psychological Approach to Literary Criticism. Folcroft Library Editions,1972.
Jacobs, Michael. Sigmund Freud. London :SAGE P, 2003.
Guttman, Samuel A. The Concordance to the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. N.Y. :International U P,1984.
Sigmund Freud Museum http://www.freud.org.uk/
