Sigmund Freud- Made simple?

Question

Looking for a simple way to understand Sigmund Freud's work. Anyone have any good resources? Simple simple simple.

Answer 1

he was a crack-rock baser and he belived children had sexual desires for their parents. otherwise ,.. a brillant mind

Answer 2

Read any Introductory Psych textbook's write-up on Freud, but forget about psychoanalytic techniques, or all the hubbub/nonsense re sexuality -- for the Victorian's EVERYTHING was about s*x.

Just think DEVELOPMENT.  That's all the psychosexual stages are about.  It's also how he conceived of how we develop conscious, the basis for social relationships, and for identity.  We start off all ID, i.e. craving, insatiable need, like any infant/child.  Then we start getting pressure from social, i.e. family and teachers and siblings etc, to behavior according to manners, social niceities, and rules of one sort or another,  As we internalize those rules, that becomes the SUPEREGO.  Then we slowly develop an EGO out of the tension of the ID and SUPEREGO.  EGO (self, if you will) is that dynamic balance between and individuality and the togetherness forces in all of us.

Answer 3

Freud was a believer of the unconscious mind. he hypothesized that a persons problems stem from unresolved conflicts occurring in the past, and that these conflicts cannot be accessed, unless a technique of therapy  called psychoanalysis is preformed. In which the individual is basically relinquished of his/her conscious and reveals information deep within.