3. The unconscious It is the deepest and main level of the human mind. Freud believes that the
important parts of human behavior are shaped and directed by desire and controled totally by the outside area of consciousness Hjelle and Ziegler 32-33.
c. Three Basic Structures of Personality
Based on the information of changing mind resources, the concept of the unconscious mind becomes a central in Freud’s study of personality, then he revised
his conceptual model of mental life and introduced three basic structures in the
anatomy of personality changing mind resources:
They are: 1. Id
The Id has no real perception of reality and it always struggles to find satisfaction needed through what Freud called the primary processes. The process is
like something that controls the life of baby, including hunger and self-protection. The id stands in direct opposition to the super-ego. The energy for the Ids actions
comes from libido. The id has 2 major instincts: a. Eros:
It is the instinct that influences people on finding pleasures e.g., sexual desires.
b. Thanatos: Thanatos is the unconscious instinct of human life, and sometimes it is called
death instinct that stimulates people to use aggressiveness. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
2. Ego Different with the Id, the Ego is aware of reality and controls by the reality
principle. The Ego knows and be aware of what is real and knows that every behavior done has its consequences, including the feeling of belonging into the social
rules. Usually it uses secondary processes perception, recognition, judgment and memory that developed during childhood.
The problem faced by the Ego is to balance the demands of the Id and Super ego with reality. The Ego controls higher mental processes such as reasoning and
problem-solving, that uses to solve the Id and Super ego demands, finding ways to satisfy the Ids needs safely in the controls of the Super ego.
3. Super ego The super ego contains values and social morals come from the rules of right
and wrong learned in childhood from parents and contain in the ethics. The Super ego gives the sample for ego to compare and encourage ego to move. The Super ego
plays as a balance to the Id, and often reduces the Ids pleasure-seeking demands, especially for sex and aggressiveness reference the
changing minds resource .
Conscious --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preconscious Ego
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unconscious Superego
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Id
The Relation of the structural model of personality to levels of awareness Hjelle and Ziegler 33
4. Parental influence on Children Psychological Development
