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Freud's' psychodynamic approach attempts to explain what drives or motivates personality development
- Essay length: 677 words
- Submitted: 31/03/2006
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Marked by teacher:
Jo Wilcox
Teacher essay summary
Overall, this is an excellent essay. It takes a complex theory and explains it clearly. There are well made criticisms in the last paragraph. The only thing it needs is a final sentence to draw a conclusion about how influential and useful Freud's theory has been. For a GCSE essay, this gets 5 stars.
Marked by teacher Jo Wilcox 17/02/2012
The first 200 words of this essay...
Freud's' psychodynamic approach attempts to explain what drives or motivates personality development. He suggested that an individual is driven to satisfy biological urges and theses motives cause us to interact with the environment, so that early experiences play an important role.
Freud identified three different parts of the mind, which are based on our level of awareness; conscious, preconscious, and subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is where we are currently in focus of attention at the moment. The preconscious consists of things which we are aware, but we are not paying our full attention. These thoughts can easily be brought into the conscious mind if chosen to do so. It is possible to control our awareness to a certain extent. The subconscious level consists of content that is out of direct reach of the conscious mind. The subconscious thinks and acts independently. One of Freud's key findings was that much behaviour is driven directly from the subconscious mind. This has the alarming consequence that we are largely unable to control our behaviour.
Freud also went on to describe the human personality as being structured into three parts, the Id, Ego and Superego. He explained that
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MbT essay summary
Overall, this is an excellent essay. It takes a complex theory and explains it clearly. There are well made criticisms in the last paragraph. The only thing it needs is a final sentence to draw a conclusion about how influential and useful Freud's theory has been. For a GCSE essay, this gets 5 stars.
