Psychoanalytic Theories

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This research paper presents an essay using explanatory strategies to explain, compare, contrast, and analyze various psychoanalytic theories.

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"Where Sigmund Freud is the pioneer of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytical theory of personality, other theorists like Karl Abraham, Carl Jung, Anna Freud and so on and so forth also played a vital role in shaping psychoanalysis by giving birth to distinct psychoanalytical theories. Sigmund Freud observed and established an analogy between the human brain or mind and an iceberg, dividing the iceberg into three and naming each part accordingly. According to this psychoanalytical theory and this brilliant theorist human personality consists of three portions namely id, the ego and the super ego (Underwood). The first part of human personality that is the id "consists of all the inherited components of personality, including sex drives and aggression. The id seeks immediate gratification of primitive impulses. It operates on the pleasure principle, seeking to avoid pain and maximize gratification" (Underwood). Ego that springs from the id also controls the functioning of the id thereby assisting humans to shape their desires and sexual drives according to their circumstances (Underwood). "The superego consists of conscience - all those actions the child is reproved for doing - and the ego-ideal - all those things the child is praised for doing."

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