Friedrich nietzsche ve sigmund freud biography

Sigmund Freud’s model of the human mind is famous. He divided the psyche into three conflicting components.

Friedrich nietzsche ve sigmund freud biography

The superego represents the psychic embodiment of moral principles and norms derived from society. The id, on the contrary, is the mental place for primitive impulses, both sexual and aggressive. The ego mediates the conflict between the id and the superego and operates, at least in part, via conscious activities.

Nowadays, it is still a matter of debate whether this subdivision has any concrete meaning or not.

I will leave such investigation to the curiosity of the reader. (To learn more on this topic, read Freud’s Brain by Elliot D. Cohen, and Freud’s Not Dead; He’s Just Really Hard to Find by Susan Krauss Whitbourne).

Today we are interested in the metaphorical significance of these three components.

Understanding what superego, ego, and id mean to us can be a powerful guide to self-knowledge.

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche can help us to shed some light on the matt