His theory is of great influence in current psychology and continues to develop through studies and clinical practices in the area, with psychoanalysts who came after him. These created their own theories but were always based on the intrinsic assumptions made by Freud, such as the notion of unconscious and transference.
In his theories, Freud states that humans are developed by differentiated processes, relating this idea to the that our brain works essentially in the field of semantics, that is, the mind develops thoughts in an intricate system of language based on images, which they area mere representations of latent meanings. In several works, such as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and "The Jokes and their Relations with the Unconscious", Freud not only develops his theory about the unconscious of the act of speech, but especially failed acts. For Freud, human consciousness:
It is subdivided into three levels: Conscious, Pre-Conscious, and Unconscious - the first contains the perceptible material; the second, the latent material, but which can easily emerge into consciousness; and the third contains material that is difficult to access, that is, the deepest content of the mind, which is linked to man's primitives.
The levels of consciousness are distributed among the three entities that make up the human mind, namely, Id, Ego, and Superego. According to Freud, the content of the unconscious is often repressed by the Ego. To circumvent repression, unconscious ideas appeal to the mechanisms defined by Freud in his work "The Interpretation of Dreams", such as displacement and condensation. These two would later be related by Jacobson to metonymy and metaphor, respectively.
"It is in word and word that the unconscious finds its essential articulation."
Look, if you got here, I congratulate you. Instinct is directly related to will. We want to take a book and start reading. Without reason, without thinking, you take an object and you see it. This is instinct. Let us give thanks to Schopenhauer and Freud for their fantastic works that have helped our students and teachers so much to reach teaching worthy of knowledge.
Now, on the topic of personality:
First, I will explain them in a simple and not superior way about the three phases developed by each one of us that tend to be modified according to our instincts and wills.
The id starts right at the primary stage. That's right, it starts in childhood. I will make three relevant points about the id:
The ID is the only component of the personality that has been present since birth. This aspect of the personality is totally unconscious and includes instinctive and primitive behaviors. The id, according to Freud, is the source of all psychic energy, becoming the main component of the personality.
Now yes! I will talk a little about my childhood. The best phase of my life so far was childhood; no doubt. When I went to school every day, I wanted to play. Recess arrived, and everyone arrived together. All the boys in my class liked to play ball on the patio; it was a big patio and it is still today. I remember that there were two goalposts in order for us to score goals. The characteristics were these: a gray-colored cement "pole" that is in the hallway of the classrooms. I reached the best way to feel pleasure in those moments because there was a hammock attached to the respective beams, the one in front of the boys' bathroom, ad the one in the front between the 2nd and 3rd elementary rooms. However, this pleasure was diminishing because at that time the people from the years above were, not every day, but sometimes they did an action that I found very annoying which was to take the paper or cardboard ball and throw it on the school roof.
But today I am comfortable since they felt a certain "pleasure" in triggering this type of behavior. Do you know why?
Human behavior is quite slow, in my opinion. Everything we think about is related to the feeling of pleasure. Today, I take pleasure in looking at the girls and feeling that desire to get to know them and ask them what they would like to do on the weekend, for example. But there is a huge mistake and "detachment".
The will always be an obstacle. Do you know why? Because the reason is above all. Rationality is put in society to be broken, but people themselves consider themselves rational. She, that is, reason; the will is great garbage thrown away. However, it always comes back in our lives only that we throw it away again. It is irrelevant. Sometimes it is useless. Instinct does serve a lot.
The most logical consequence that we can draw from instinct is that it makes you feel a BIG problem in your life. But you must ask yourself, "What do you mean"?
Instinct is linked to the fact of personality characteristics, because from the beginning of human consciousness, that is, the appearance of the id, it ends up renewing itself or rather, developing until it reaches the moment when you assume the role of an "articulator" brave enough to know the risks acting unconsciously leading to nothing within you. The human capacity is very large. Every time we think it is possible to do that will, sometimes it is "kicked" away from our lives because the act of thinking and reasoning prevents you from feeling pleasure again, that's right, please.
"When we say that pleasure is the essence of a good life, we do not mean the pleasure of the extravagant or what depends on physical satisfaction, but by pleasure, we mean the state in which the body has freed itself from pain and the mind from anxiety. "
Epicurus
The child's personality develops over time because that desire to play is increasingly attracting the human cognitive capacity, the intellectual capacity, the intrinsic capacity; the child knows what he is doing, yes he does! Everything around us has a feeling. When we "throw" our instincts out of you, outwards, the will ends up being unnecessary and inopportune once again. That sucks that instinct! The person can no longer feel free because there is a barrier to be destroyed which is the reason. The human is made up of domas. The human is not one who does not think, but one who transforms the imagination as a whole into art.