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Jun 27, 2011, 05:29 AM
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Member Since: May 2011
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Can this explain DID?
Your thoughts?
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Freud believed that personality had three components, all of which must work together to produce our complex behaviours. These three components or aspects were the Id, Ego, and the Superego. It was Freud's belief that these three components needed to be well-balanced to produce reasonable mental health and stability in an individual. According to Freud, the Id functions in the irrational and emotional part of the mind, the Ego functions as the rational part of the mind, and the Superego can be thought of as the moral part of the mind, a manifestation of societal or parental values.
But perhaps Freud's greatest contribution was the fact that the human personality is multi-faceted. Regardless of the classification or name given to a particular area of personality (id, superego, etc.), each individual possesses factions that frequently collide with each other. And it is these collisions and interactions between these personality factions that manifest themselves as an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Thus, under Freud's theories, an individual's behaviour can be understood by analyzing and understanding his/her three factions.
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