Psychodynamics Case Study

There was once a middle aged man named Mark, who got into a little quarrel with his manager at work. Fearing he would lose his job if the quarrel continued, he left for his home and took out his anger on his son. The explanation of such a behavior can be linked to the study of psychodynamic perspectives.
Psychodynamics is a part of study in the subject of psychology, that deals with how psychologic forces or energy that underlies human emotions and feelings may affect an individual’s personality or behavior. This psychologic energy may have resulted from modern day experiences or events that happened in our earlier life. These experiences may have unconsciously been stored in our brain or they must have been a form of repression (Repression

He proposed that humans were born with 2 basic instincts. One being the ‘Thantos’ or the death instinct which is responsible for the aggressive drives; and the ‘Eros’ or the life instinct which is responsible for the sex drive or ‘libido’. The existence of these instincts leads to the formation of human behavior. Freud stated that all humans are driven by sexual desires. These theories proposed by Freud were known as Psychoanalysis.
Freud also remarked that the childhood era is perhaps the most important in a human’s life as they pick up experiences which shape the structure of our Unconscious Mind.
Freud said there were 3 fundamental parts of the Psychic Apparatus in his structural model of the Psyche. A Psychic Apparatus is a theoretic explanation by Sigmund explaining the working of the mind.
These 3 are 1) Id; 2) Ego; 3)

According to Freud, there are instances when the Unconscious mind interferes with our actions such as speech, thus bringing to surface one of our subdued wishes, ideas or conflicts accidentally. They reveal a ‘source outside speech’ and thus forms a crucial part of psychoanalysis.
An example of a Freudian slip can be taken from when, Former British Labour Prime Minister in his speech to the ‘House of Commons’ was accused of having a superhero complex when he remarked ‘not only saved the world’ instead of ‘Saved the banks’
The Psychodynamic Perspectives explain to us how the personality of an individual depends largely on the internal conflicts or memories within his/her Unconscious Mind. The dynamics of this conflict through early stages of development underline its determination on an individual’s personality during adulthood. Through the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, we see how memories or ideas from the early stages of development prove significant to explaining human behavior, feeling and