This system shows the traditional values and ideals of society. The super ego inhibits the ids impulses and persuades the ego to substitute moral goals to realistic ones toward perfection. This area of the personality is related to psychological rewards: pride and self-love, and punishment: guilt and inferiority. .
With this, humans are viewed as energy systems and the makeup of personality is how psychic energy is distributed to these components. Because energy is limited, one system takes control over the available energy at the expense of the others. Ultimately behavior is determined by this energy. .
There are key types to understanding behavior and problems of personality: conscious and unconscious. The unconscious can't be studied, but is determined by behavior. It stores up all experiences, memories, and repressed material. Most psychological functioning exists in this realm. The unconscious exists through dreams, slips of the tongue, forgetting, post hypnotic suggestions, material derived from free association, material derived from projective techniques, and symbolic contact of psychotic symptoms. The consciousness is a thin slice of the total mind. .
Goal of Psychoanalysis Therapy.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious motives conscious. Unconscious ways are the root of all forms of neurotic symptoms and behaviors. The cure is based on uncovering the meaning of symptoms, cause of behavior, and repressed materials that interfere with healthy functioning. .
Also essential to this approach is anxiety, which is a state of tension that motivates us to do something. It comes from a conflict of the three systems over the control of the available psychic energy (Corey, 2001). There are 3 types of anxiety:.
1. Reality – Fear of danger from external world. This level is in direct proportion to degree of the real threat.
2. Neurotic – Fear the instincts will get out of hand and cause actions, which require punishment.