consists of the conscience and the ego ideal.” It incorporates absolute standards of morality and ethics. Certain avenues of satisfaction are not allowed, and so, loosely speaking, the superego plays the role of the conscience. According to Freud, they all function together in a healthy personality largely as a result of a strong ego. When the Id, Ego, and Superego clash, a problem can occur. What can happen is a person can have nightmares or a slip of the tongue can happen. When a traumatic event takes place, the Id, Ego and Superego become significantly out of balance. If this should occur, then a psychological disorder is present. The psychological disorder includes: depression, anxiety, hysteria, and phobias. This is known as psychoneurotic theory. Hysteria was called the first application of psychoanalytical treatment back then. Hysteria today is referred to as a conversion disorder. This sickness can intrude on a completely healthy person. The symptoms include numbness or paralysis of limbs, blindness or laryngitis. In Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, he believes that this can be caused by fantasies produced by the unconscious mind. One must bear in mind that the id, ego and superego are only metaphors despite the fact that Freud wrote of them as though they were real entities resident somewhere within the person.Unlike his companion Charcot, Freud believed that based on his clinical studies, some mental disorders like hysteria were based on sexual manner. For example, Freud linked “the etiologic of neurotic symptoms to the same struggle between a sexual feeling or urge and the psychic defences against it”. He felt that being able to talk about such problems were crucial in helping the patient and using free association was the best way to confront and treat these feelings. In his clinical observations Freud found evidence for the mental mechanisms of repression and resistance. He described repres...
