welcome guys so I got this little tape
on or sticky whiteboard and I've been
wanting to get a whiteboard for a long
time just because I like the idea of
illustrating while I'm teaching or
sharing things and so I thought I'd try
something out this video is just off the
cuff I didn't script it or outline it so
I'm not sure I'm just going off on my
knowledge so it might not be super
organized and well formulated but I
wanted to talk about somebody that is
near and dear to my heart and yeah that
people don't that he gets a bad rap but
I want to sort of demystify who he is
and what his philosophy and teachings
were because I think there's a lot of
like beauty and just things to be
learned and gleaned from from who he was
and what he what he talked about so who
was that person Sigmund Freud so I'm
going to talk about Freudian psychology
and really how it was put forth by Freud
himself because there's a lot of
offshoots and there's a lot of ways that
psycho psycho dynamics which is what
it's called in psycho and psychoanalysis
has evolved since then since his time
which was like early nineteen or early
twentieth century but his what his
philosophy and sort of main points were
were really phenomenal and really
changing they changed the game and he is
the grandfather or the forefather of
psychology he is what modern-day
psychology where it comes from
and at the same time he is not there are
elements of his work that are not
archaic and in fact he was more of a
philosopher than he was a psychologist
but
used his work with clients to understand
human nature and so in that regard it
becomes psychology but so there's a lot
of points to talk about with Freud but
today I'm just gonna talk about one he
wrote a book called civilization and its
discontents so if you know Freud and you
know his work you'll know that book but
if you don't that's the book I want to
talk about and really give it I want to
give you the nutshell version of it not
just even a sparknotes but like what is
really important to know about that book
and it kind of brings together a lot of
his other the like the framework of his
other teachings or philosophies so
alright so Foyt is kind of the person
who was responsible for what we now call
ego psychology and it's called ego
because he talked about the formation of
the structure of the psyche which we
called the ego and for him there were
three parts to the psyche not all the
ego the ego was one part and those three
parts were the put down here so here's
the ego and one part was called the kid
and the other part was called the
super-ego and this is really what I want
to talk about here so these three
components these are what he said the
the psyche is comprised of I don't need
to be in the video so so the so the
super-ego let's start with the it'd
because this is all based on evolution -
so the it is the instincts the prime
prime the it is like the our instincts
our desires it's our kind of animalistic
primal element it's the part of us that
animals have its instincts it's also
life energy it's also that which is very
creative and I don't know if I'll get
the
like I can do a whole thing just on the
it'd because the it'd is really cool
when you bring in the topic of Eros what
I just bought this freaking thing and
it's already running out that is not
cool no if you see that you can't maybe
it's too hot right now shit
okay well eros eros is a really cool
topic to talk about can't see it in
there but that's associated with the
it'd anyway so that's what the it is and
sexuality our desires our needs emotions
you can even see kind of coming out of
this and it is really what the baby what
we as babies are born with when babies
are born we're just all it we're just
all instincts and desires and impulses
through the process of socialization
though we develop something called an
ego and the function of the ego is
actually to to to allow the heed these
instincts these desires these impulses
to function within a society within the
context of of relationships and norms
and values and that's where we get the
super-ego all right well I guess I can't
write anymore because this stupid marker
already ran out it's the first time I'm
using this thing so it must just be
really um hot anyways we have this
depiction here that's all we need so the
super-ego is actually I'm super
frustrated markers not working anyway so
the super-ego is actually a part of our
psyche that is about more morality
ethics values this is first develops
from our parents from what our parents
deem okay not okay
where we get punished what they tell us
we can and can't do that's why we
develop a super-ego is because our first
it's because our social environment is
because our parents and that environment
our small society if you want to say if
you
look at it that way and the function of
the super-ego is to allow us to to
survive and thrive and live in an
environment where there are there are
rules where there are norms where we
might get punished for certain things
that we do because imagine we if we were
just kid and if there was no super-ego
right we would just be just it's like
being a baby but that's a grown up so
it's like we'd be pissing and shitting
everywhere
we wouldn't care about other people and
we would steal things and beat people up
and we would just be all instinct and
drive and survival and we wouldn't care
about other people we wouldn't care to
relate to other people or function in a
society in a way that you know wasn't
for our benefit only so that's why you
get super you go because we we learn to
live and thrive in a society in a group
and if we were just all this we would be
extra extricated exercise we would have
to leave the group because we could not
live in a society we could not live
function in yeah in a group so so that's
why the super-ego developed it was
actually a survival technique and it was
you know not something that's
evolutionarily I mean you probably see
this in in like monkeys and primates to
some version of the super-ego some
version of feeling empathy or shame or
whatever it is and so the ego here in
between the ID and the super-ego is
going to be that which allows
communication and a mediation to happen
between the ED and the super-ego because
we need that to live in society so the
reason and I guess I will talk about
arrows because the reason for it called
his book civilization and it's too
discontent was because this is
civilization so the super-ego he saw
that there was a that there was a like
sort of pain and a sort of suffering in
the fact that we have to sacrifice our
needs our desires who we are like kind
of on a basic primal level to function
in society to live in society so he was
seeing in the it'd in his clients a lot
of repression of sexual desire this is
back in like the Victorian age
suppression of sexual desires of
emotions like anger rage and you know
the Victorian age is such suppressed and
kind of repressed culture so he saw that
happening because there was an
overactive super-ego and people were
shutting down the eed so much through
socialization their civilization needing
to function in society that this is
where a lot of the dysfunction was
happening in that suppression and that
was coming out in expressing through the
ego as a dysfunction and as distress as
mental illness he was the first one to
talk about depression anxiety hysteria
as what he called it as a mental illness
and he saw it because it was a problem
in the egoic structure because there was
overactive soup there was an overactive
super-ego and an underactive did too
much suppression of the it'd so I'll
talk a little bit about eros which is
that the way that I was taught to learn
about Freud was that you know the it is
also the source of our creativity our
liveness our connection our desire
ability to relate to other people and
not just relate but to love it's the
energy of creativity love and life force
so that is what eros that is what eros
is heat that's what he called eros
so we still see this today right an
overactive super-ego dampening
suppressing killing our creativity our
aliveness or sense of yeah our primal
essence who we really are not just like
on an instinctual level but
energetically from that creative
lifeforce energy and that being filtered
through the ego in a way that can be
channeled and and seen and work
basically in society is kind of the goal
but we don't have that right now because
we have such a o-over socialization of
our of who we are and a dampening of our
ego and our creativity and our aliveness
and really our authenticity the ego is
nothing more than the structure through
which the aid can express its our
personalities who we are in the world
and how to use this energy to function
in society using these norms ethics
morals that we know of that we've
learned there's still a way to channel
the it'd through the ego in a way that
is functional and can be you know not
deemed a problem in society and that
also functions to make us happy and
fulfilled and and alive and authentic in
the world so sorry my pen ran out my
marker but hopefully that makes sense
and hopefully my pointing can direct was
able to direct your attention a little
more but yeah that's my little Freud
talk and yeah I'm I love this stuff so
hopefully that was helpful to you and
hopefully that gives Freud a little
better reputation for what he's done to
the field of psychology and even
spirituality because you hear about ego
a lot he was the person who who coined
all that stuff so thanks for watching
guys
I might make more videos like this if I
get a new whiteboard or about
marker but hopefully you liked it
