3. Conscious Level
Makes up everything
we are AWARE of…
Make up 10% of what is
visible…
Makes up about 10% of what we know
4. Preconscious Level
Only accessed when
prompted.
Buried under surface
unless searched.
Examples:
Phone numbers
Childhood Memories
Makes up about 10% of what we know
-Superego
-Ego
5. Preconscious Level – (Superego)
Often referred to as the
“moral part of the mind.”
It stores and enforces
rules.
Strives for perfection,
even though this ideal
may be quite far from
reality.
-Superego
6. Preconscious Level – (Ego)
Grows out of the
awareness that you
can’t always get what
you want.
Realizes the need for
compromise and
negotiates between
the Id and the
Superego.
-Ego
7. Unconscious Level
Not directly accessible
to awareness.
Tied to anxiety, conflict
and pain.
Makes up about 80% of what we know
-Id
8. Unconscious Level – (Id)
The irrational and
emotional part of mind
Doesn’t care about
reality…
the pleasure principle:
“I want it and I want it all
now!”
-Id
Freud felt that this part of the mind was not directly accessible to awareness. In part, he saw it as a dump box for urges, feelings and ideas that are tied to anxiety, conflict and pain. These feelings and thoughts have not disappeared and according to Freud, they are there, exerting influence on our actions and our conscious awareness. This is where most of the work of the Id, Ego, and Superego take place.
In Psychoanalytical theory, the part of the personality which contains our primitive impulses such as sex, anger, and hunger.
THE ID functions in the irrational and emotional part of the mind. At birth a baby’s mind is all Id - want want want. The Id is the primitive mind. It contains all the basic needs and feelings. It is the source for libido (psychic energy). And it has only one rule --> the pleasure principle: want it and I want it all now. In transactional analysis, Id equates to "Child". Id too strong = bound up in self-gratification and uncaring to others