stressful first draft.

So for those of you who have had a Psychology class either during high school or your first semester in college, you may who I am choosing to talk about today. And for those of you who haven’t, it’s okay because I had no clue who this guy was before last week when we got to learning about him. My teacher was starting her lesson, and she said “what do you think of when you hear the name Freud?” and everybody around me is shouting out these answers and I’m just still sitting there like “nope, still not ringing any bells.”
Now, when I think of creativity, I think of someone who can think outside of the box. I think of a person that has come up with an idea that never has been thought of before, or someone who is the founder of it all. The person I chose to talk about today is Sigmund Freud. For those of you who do not know who this man is, he was the founder of the psychoanalytic theory. The psychoanalytic theory was an approach to therapy and a theory of personality.
Born in the Victorian age, Sigmund’s family lived in a rented a small room of a blacksmiths house. Although he had eight siblings, his parents favored him the most and despite their poverty attended to his education. He received a medical degree from the University of Vienna and opened his own practice as a clinical neurologist treating patients with emotional disorders. From working with these patients, he was convinced that sex was a primary cause to these emotional disorders. Now, to better understand this theory, there are three main elements: the different levels of awareness, the interplay of the three parts of personality, and the psychosexual stage theory of personality development.
Freud’s three levels of awareness are broken down to the conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind is what you are thinking about right now, or can be known as your short-term memory. The preconscious mind is what is stored in your memory; you are not aware of it but can gain access to. This is also known as your long-term memory. Last but not least is your unconscious, and this is the thoughts that we cannot freely access.
Next in his theory are the three parts of personality. The id is present at birth and is your original personality and from here the ego and superego emerge. The ego starts developing during the first few years of life to make sure the id’s drives are satisfied. The third personality structure is the superego which also develops from the id, and this represents the conscience and idealized standards of behavior in a certain culture. For example relating to the ego, take a stressful situation in your life, one that you had different options for and wanted to please someone. Take the situation such as choosing where to go to college, we all had to do it, wanting to satisfy everyone, but it is just not possible. From there, your ego uses what Freud called defense mechanisms, or processes that help protect us from anxiety.
Moving on to Freud’s third element in his theory is the psychosexual stage. In this stage of his theory he came up with different levels or stages you should be going through in a particular time in your life. Although not everybody will follow these stages the same, everybody goes through them.
I consider this man as a genius based on the fact of his theory that is so broad. This had to take a long time to fully figure out and was all put on by one man. I also consider the time period that he grew up in, when woman were not even allowed to show their ankles because it was taken as a sexual thing. Our views of psychological research are much different in the present time, being over 100 years ago that this man made this theory is a genius idea. He had much impact on our thinking then, and some wonder what his views would be if he were alive today.

a second look at it ..

Last week, the definition I gave for genius could be someone on many different levels. From a famous person who invented something or just merely someone who has a genius mind with the way they think or use their talents to help others. An example of a truly genius invention would be all of the Apple Products created by Steve Jobs. One product in particular being the iPhone 5. Now that the iPhone 5 has been released, people now have access to a smart phone that you can talk to, look at maps in 3D, and even captures panorama pictures. As time goes on, these phones will only continue to get more and more advanced. We all have our own opinions of a person or thing that we think is truly genius, and last week I chose a more personal one. I talked about my own father as having a creative, genius mind and using it to help others find solutions to their problems.