Sigumand Freud And Nietzsche Personalities And The Mind...

Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind There were two great minds in this century. One such mind was that of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). In the year 1923 he created a new view of the mind. That view encompassed the idea we have split personalities and that each one have their own realm, their own tastes, their own principles upon which they are guided. He called these different personalities the id, ego, and super ego. Each of them are alive and well inside each of our unconscious minds, separate but yet inside the mind inhabiting one equal plane. Then there was Nietzsche (1844-1900) who formulated his own theories about the sub-conscious. His ideas were based on the fact that inside each and every one of us is a raging†¦show more content†¦It could then be said that the id represents the primitive, unconscious basis of the psyche dominated by primary urges. The psyche of a newly-born child, for instance, is made up of primarily the id. But then contact with that child and the outside world modifies the id. This modification then creates the next part of the psyche, the ego, which begins to differentiate itself from the id and the rest of the psyche (Dilman, 163). nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;The ego should be seen primarily as Freud puts it is, quot;...first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface,quot; (Freud, The Ego and the Id, 20). An analogy that could help with this definition could be one that states the following. If we were to identify it with the, quot;cortical homunculus,quot; (Freud, TEI, 20) of the anatomists, quot;which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces backwards and, as we know, has its speech area on the left side,quot; (Freud, TEI, 20). Ego, the Latin word for quot;I,quot; is a persons conception of himself or herself. The term has taken on various shades of meaning in psychology and philosophy. In psychoanalysis, the ego is a set of personality functions for dealing with reality, which maintains a certain unity throughout an individuals life. Freud, with whom the concept is closely associated, redefined it several times. In 1923, Freud used the term to refer to the conscious,