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Freudian Approach to Their Eyes Were Watching God
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  • Freudian Theory
    • Freud's Basic Theory
    • Freudian Theory Extended
  • Freudian Approach Connections To Author
  • How Freudian Theory Relates
    • ID, Ego, & the Superego
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  • Annotated Passages
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    • Annotated Passage 2
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Freud's Basic Theory

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Freud’s most notable and recognizable theories were his analysis of peoples’ personality factors including the ID, Ego and Superego.

ID:
· Source of all aggressions and desires. Its only concern is for instinctual       
  gratification.
· Lawless, asocial, and immoral.
· Function is to gratify the instincts for pleasure without regard to legal ethics or   
  moral restraint. 
· If ID is not controlled, it may lead to destruction or self-destruction.

                                      Ego:
                                      · Regulates the aggressive drives of the ID through societal rules and                                                             expectations.
                                      · Represents reasoning and circumspection.
                                      · Rational governing agent of the psyche.

                                      Superego:
                                      · Largely unconscious, Superego is the moral censoring agency.
                                      · Prime function is to protect society.
                                      · An advocate of impulse towards perfection.
                                      · Serves to overt aggression and sexual passions.
                                      · Dominated by morality principle.

FREUDIAN THEORY EXTENDED
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