Freud found that in many of his patients, the demands of the id conflicted with the absolute prohibitions of the superego, resulting in weakened egos to the point of mental collapse. While the ego seeks compromise, the superego is satisfied with nothing less than perfection. Superego The conscience or part of a person concerned with moral ideals, both conscious and unconscious, containing the person’s earliest and most intense emotional links with his/her parents.Ego Relates the individual to the real world and seeks to protect it and enable it to cope.Id A person’s unconscious instincts, the most primitive and elemental drives or urges, which are uncompromising and dictatorial, and which are partly inherited and partly acquired.Id, Ego and Super-Ego Figure by įreud differentiated between the id, ego and super-ego (Figure 1): These provide, as it were, the skeleton upon which hang all Freud’s other concepts (e.g. Psychoanalysis developed from the work of Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) as a method of treating psycho-neurotic abnormalities by focusing upon the influence of the unconscious on the mind and behavior.įreud’s psychoanalysis involves two fundamental systems: first, the id, ego and super-ego and secondly, the unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious. BASIC CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Sigmund Freud A glossary of psychoanalytic terms is found at the conclusion. Finally, the author’s own psychoanalytic model of landscape aesthetic response is presented.
It penetrates the inner motivations which are often hidden, and identifies drives and influences of which we are unlikely to be even conscious.įollowing a brief description of psychoanalytic concepts, this chapter reviews the various approaches of psycho-analysts towards aesthetics and their relevance to landscape quality. Relevance of psycho-analytic approach to landscape Click hereĪppendix: Glossary of psychoanalytic terms Click hereĪlthough psychoanalysis may seem an unusual subject to include in a website on landscape quality assessment, it actually offers significant insights into how people regard aesthetic objects, landscapes included.
Psychoanalytic approaches to aesthetics Click here Hanns Sachs: a psychoanalyst’s view of landscape Click here Basic concepts of psychoanalysis Click here