Freud And Freud's Theory Of Personality And Reality

The paper below will fully illustrates the purpose of reality, how personality and reality relate to each other. The paper further discusses the core tenets of the named theory, how this theory was drawn and why this theory is important across the world.

Each individual shows unique characteristics such as; emotion, behaviour and cognitive process. According to Freud( ) , personality is shaped by early childhood experiences, conscious and the unconscious mind process these experiences into five psychosexual stages, which include; oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital . Therefore I define personality as unique characteristics portrayed by an individual of which makes them stand out from others. John Locke (1632-1704) used the term “tabula

Freud defines the conscious mind as the part that has recent memories of experience and that can be remembered. The unconscious mind being the one that stores experience that an individual wishes to forget. He further identifies three levels of the unconscious mind that play a role in personality. The id, this is the first level that deals with the pleasure principle. I view the id as an individual’s fantasy. The super ego, being the morality principle. I think that the super ego does not play much of a role in personality but can be viewed as the neutral point. The ego, this is the level that deals with the reality principle. I would label this part of the brain as the reality. I also believe that the ego plays an important role in helping distinguish the reality that we live in from the fantasy that we wish to live in. An example to further explain this is the photography professions. A photographer could be a person that is obsessed with sexual activities as to try and satisfy their sexual fantasies. This individual find appropriate ways to satisfy their fantasies through the artistic work that they do for example, a nude photo shoot, of which is seen as appropriate in other

This is also seen in what is reality is; what one society sees as reality, the other sees as fantasy. With the psycho reality theory, no culture is right wrong. The rights and wrongs is dependent on the society one is living in. In Botswana, society fails to believe in psychological disorders. This is to the extent that those suffering for these disorders are immediately labelled as mentally retarded (setsenwa) or a criminal. For example, in Botswana, if a person attempts to commit suicide, they are prosecuted or taken to mental institution. Psycho reality theory allows individuals to fully understand that there are people with the ability to identify reality and that cases of such should not be ignored or label, instead they should be dealt with an open mind and acceptance to