What Is Three Key Concepts From Each Of The Following Schools

This essay is going to define three key concepts from each of the following schools, Freud(psychoanalytical), Carl Rogers (person centred), Carl Jung(psychodynamic)and Cognitive behavioural therapy; applying the concepts to my own experiences and evaluating their relevant worth. The id is a primitive, disorganised and unchanging unconscious part of the mind that does not change with time and is present at birth. It follows basic instinctual drives; containing libidinal energy of Thantos(death instinct ) and Eros(life instinct) . According to Freud The id knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality. ... Instinctual cathexes seeking discharge—that, in our view, is all there is in the id.† (Freud, Strachey and Gay, 1995,†¦show more content†¦An example of the ego intervening would be that I would be able to have a couple of glasses of wine after the assignments have been finished. Freud compared the ego and the id as a rider and horse, with the horse providing the power and the rider giving direction. (Freud, 1923, p.15) Without direction from the ego instant gratification would have occurred in fulfilling the needs of the id and danger(Thanatos) and maybe even alcoholism if the ego were to become weakened and the supere go ignored. The last part of the personality within the psyche to form is the superego, this is where all our moral standards that we acquire from society and parents. Freud discussed the construction of the superego as not being based upon the parent but the superego of the parent, herby inheriting, judgement pre-determined working models of how we should be. (Snowdwn,2004, p.130) The superego like a condemning figure seeks gratification when it is able to challenge any immorality from the id and is similar to the id in the fact that they both distort reality. When wanting to relieve tension between the opposing forces by having a glass of wine the superego will be over condemning telling me that this is highly unacceptable. If the superego were to become stronger than my ego this would have an influence, where I would perceive others as,