Observations of Sigmund Freud

             Imagine this: a man who can know the brain and understand the conflict occurring when we encounter anxiety and unhappiness. Mr. Sigmund Freud had this ability. He knew the human brain all too well. Before entering the University of Vienna in 1873, the youthful Sigmund Freud had signs of brilliance and intelligence. He had a magnificent memory. He loved reading so much that he once ran up a large bill at a local bookstore that was beyond his budget. He had an obsession with plays, poetry, and philosophy. As a teen, he often ate his supper in his room to avoid losing time from his studies. After medical school, he began a private practice specializing in nervous disorders. He soon broadened his specialization into hypnosis, unconscious memories, and personality structures.
             In an example of a patient that Freud examined, he showed the symptoms she was facing, such as coughs and speech disorders, resulting from an event when she was nursing her dying father at his bedside. She left her father's side and went to a next-door neighbor's house to dance, and she felt guilt over the event. After this observation and others, Freud concluded three internal tendencies; id, ego, and superego. The brain is not cut into three different structures. It is not the three little men that most people picture in their mind that tell you what to do, like good and evil. It is only three different aspects of the whole brain and not three different parts. The three aspects, id, ego, and superego, are different levels of consciousness. The memories of a person often fluctuate from level to level.
             The id operates on a pleasure principle. It seeks immediate gratification. When a person is born, it demands something like eating, drinking, sleeping, and sexual pleasure in its lifetime. This is something that a person feels that it has to have. This is not a necessity, but what the person thinks is a necessity and will do anything to get. If a person wants badl...

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