Post by tanya on Sept 23, 2017 0:59:21 GMT
In the Freudian unconscious, conflict is the struggle between the the three parts of the psyche ( the id, ego, and superego) and repression, due to the dissatisfaction of our pleasure principle, the id. The id is our unrestrained personality that is completely free of limitations by the external world. The source of the conflict occurs when an individual, instead of satisfying their id (behaving violently in a heated argument, which would be acting purely on the pleasure component of the id, in this case anger) is unable to do so by the ego, which satisfies the id in socially acceptable ways. As behaving violently often goes against real-life social limitations, the ego in the individual prompts them to walk out of the interaction instead. The conflict between the id and the ego leads to a positive outcome in this case. A negative outcome of conflict in the Freudian unconscious can be repression. This would occur when not only actions, but the thoughts are controlled as well through the moral warning voice from within, known as the superego. The superego, which is formed by our cultural surroundings, may cause us to push specific thoughts out of the unconscious which are not deemed appropriate by the dominant societal rules. These thoughts remain lurking in the unconscious. For example, a victim of physical violence may become afraid to speak about their experience in a culture where victims are mocked and degraded, and so in an anxious response to avoid these reactions, the person pushes their thoughts regarding the violence out of their conscious. This act of repression serves a negative outcome, as the victim only continues to become only more anxious and dysfunctional.