Cherami Interiano
personality development
CJC
March02 2011
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856 to Galician Jewish parents in Příbor (German: Freiberg in Mähren), Moravia, Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic. His father Jakob was 41, a wool merchant, and had two children by a previous marriage. His mother Amalié (née Nathansohn), the second wife of Jakob, was 21. He was the first of their eight children and owing to his precocious intellect, his parents favoured him over his siblings from the early stages of his childhood; and despite their poverty, they sacrificed everything to give him a proper education. Due to the economic crisis of 1857, father Freud lost his business, and the family moved first to Leipzig before settling in Vienna. In 1865, Sigmund entered the Leopoldstädter Kommunal-Realgymnasium, a prominent high school. Freud was an outstanding pupil and graduated the Matura in 1873 with honours.
After planning to study law, Freud joined the medical faculty at University of Vienna to study under Darwinist Prof. Karl Claus. At that time, eel life history was still unknown, and due to their mysterious origins and migrations, a racist association was often made between eels and Jews and Gypsies. In search for their male sex organs, Freud spent four weeks at the Austrian zoological research station in Trieste, dissecting hundreds of eels without finding more than his predecessors such as Simon von Syrski. In 1876, he published his first paper about "the testicles of eels" in the "Mitteilungen der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften", conceding that he could not solve the matter either. Frustrated by the lack of success that would have gained him fame, Freud chose to change his course of study. Biographers like Siegfried Bernfeld wonder if and how this early episode was significant for his later work regarding hidden sexuality and frustrations.
I decided to to do about Sigmund Freud since he deals with the two parts of mind which are the conscious and conscious mind. The conscious mind are thought and behavior we are aware of lik, memory think and process rationally. The unconscious mind are thought emotions urges memories that are outside of conscious mind sigmund freud says it has three parts of personality which are ID, pleasure principle and EGO. ID is the primal part present at entirely unconscious instinctive and primitive behavior. The pleasure principle deals with strive for immediate gratification of all desire wants and needs. The Ego deals with reality ensures that our impulses can be expressed in an acceptable manner. The conscious and unconscious mind deals with reality principle to satisfy desire in a socially appropriate way.
I think this theory has a lot to do in real life since most of our action we have we make it consciously or unconsciously without seeing the consequence it can have in life. For example we know what is bad fron good we also know what decisions we can make in life. We also in our conscious we have guilt about a remorse we had in our past or present. In the unconscious mind this apply in real life since sometimes we make decisions in life without realizing the consequence of it. This are unpleasant or unacceptable pain. We also feel we have the power to do anything without realizing the that each action we make in life has a consequence to it.
