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In this video I review the fundamental ideas of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious, then I describe Freud's personality structure of the id, ego, and superego. The id is the animal drives of personality, powered by libido and operating on the pleasure principle. The ego seeks to maintain relationships and integrate into society by operating on the reality principle. The superego represents the ideals of morality and virtue that we can never quite achieve and this failure can cause anxiety. While Freud's views are often criticized or dismissed today, the underlying ideas of subpersonalities and forces pushing and pulling us in multiple directions remain appealing and relatable. Finally I consider Bruno Bettelheim's suggestion that Freud's work has been misinterpreted due to translation into academic Greek and Latin and has lost the emotional connection of its original German.

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