by David Adelman

Created on: May 18, 2009

The Gathering of the Freudian Slips

Using Freud's classification of the Id, the ego and the superego in everyday life, as well as the id-superego conflicts and its defence mechanisms in everyday life, one can greatly understand a person and his/her psyche. The Id is totally unconscious and displays our animalistic origin of the constant desire for sex and aggression. The superego, which is partly unconscious as well as conscious, acts as our rationale and moral conscious, regulating our actions and also prevents the Id side to take over, while the ego is the mediator between the superego and id, allowing us to still do things we desire without affecting society or others- it as well is partly unconscious. I have decided to make a Freudian analysis on three random individuals with or without psychological disorders. Each one has a different personality with different emotions, thoughts and behaviours as well as family background and upbringing. The participants will talk and become acquainted with one another, and at the same time, one of them with come with me into my office and discuss freely their thoughts and dreams, as I record and make observations in the hope of recreating a psychoanalytical session. In this report I have changed the names of the participants in order to protect their identity. (Plotnik, R. (2007) and Major, M.(Winter, 2008))

Jon Smith, case one: As my first participant gets comfortable on my reclined leather sofa, I wait for him to get ready to speak. "Every night, I have a craving to go downtown.. I haven't ever really had a girlfriend and I really want to meet women. I go to clubs and blow lots of money away every night, and the girls I meet are just temporary and I rarely ever see or talk to them again, but I always try to find the "perfect" one. I can't stop the craving to go downtown. I know I have school to do and a part time job also to juggle, but recently I haven't been going to school or work, even though deep down I know there will be consequences. At first I used to feel anxious because I knew it would be hard to juggle my social life and my academic life. But nowadays, I really don't care about school. I figure that I will just survive off my grandparent's money- they own a jewellery store that has been around since they came to Canada seventy years ago. School is boring anyways, and all the girls at school have boyfriends. I don't believe that I am doing anything wrong by just having some fun. I

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