The movie 'Drop Dead Fred' is the story of Lizzy. When Lizzy was a little girl she had an imaginary friend she called Drop Dead Fred. Whenever something destructive, aggressive or impulsive happened, Lizzy always insisted that it was Fred. At one point her mother threatened to kill Fred if she ever mentioned him again. Lizzy never mentioned him again. Two decades later, Lizzy is going through a very rough phase. Her boyfriend left her, she lost her job and someone stole her car. At that point she runs into an old friend of hers who reminds her of Fred. At first she can't remember him, but then he suddenly appears again. So what would Freud say about Fred? After lots of 'aah's, 'hmm's and 'mmm?'s, he would probably start by explaining parts of hiss theory to Lizzy, so that is where I will start.
             Freud's most fundamental belief is that there are thoughts, feelings and emotions you are not aware of. This is what is today called the psychodynamic theory. These unconscious thoughts make you act in a certain way. Have you ever done something and later you couldn't think of a single reason why you did it? That was probably an unconscious thought at work right there.
             Freud said that your psyche was divided into three parts. Two of them (superego and id) always want opposites and the ego tries to keep the peace. The id is the impulsive part. It knows no rules; it simply wants to fulfill its desires right there and then.
             The superego is the internalized rules of society; it strongly opposes the impulsiveness of the id. It insists that everything be done in an orderly and organized fashion. The superego is not present at birth; it is developed later on in life.
             The ego has the incredibly hard task to negotiate between these two. It tries to fulfill the wishes of the id through the rules of the superego. In that way, the ego tries to compromise, but when it all becomes too much it...