

Through his research, Freud concluded, "all psychological events are tied to energy, drive, and instincts based on biological characteristics" (Muss. In one rather simplistic topographical model, he was able to develop a theoretical assumption of the intangible human mind. One hundred years later this picture looks rather different While not biologically sound, Freud's explanation of the workings of the mind is revolutionary.

Freud also believed also believed that the different aspects of personality had distinct 'biological origins', and that it was only a matter of time before physiological research would reveal the physiological substrates of the id, ego and superego. The development of personality are not really susceptible to normal psychological evaluation, since what is considered to count as evidence is so very different from the normal empirical evidence required in psychology. There are several weaknesses to psychoanalytic theory. I will now discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of his fame work. N 1994) "I want what I want and I want it now!". The id, according to Freud, operates under the Pleasure Principle: (Hayes. There are two of these drives: Eros, the s*x drive, and Thanatos, the death instinct. The id is little more than inherited biological drives, the ones that control many of our actions. He saw a person's behaviour as the outcome of interactions among these three components. He categorized the mental process into three components: id, ego, and superego. Later on, Freud developed a more sophisticated view of the brains activity. Freud's most significant contributions to the understanding of human thought was to describe brain activity as occurring on three levels of awareness: conscious, preconscious and unconscious. I will then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Freud's theory on this tripartite model of the mind. In order for me to do this, I will start by defining all of the three components of the mind and then talk about how each of them relate to psychoanalysis. How do id, ego and superego, each contribute to Freud's concept of analytical psychology? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of this framework? In this essay, I will be discussing how the id, ego and superego, each contribute to Freud's concept of analytical psychology.
