Sunday, November 11, 2007
Freudian theories
In class we have been recently talking about Freud and his throeies of the self. we talked about the ID which is the inner experiance, the will and erotic drive, the Ego which is the conscious or the "outer world", and the Superego which are the collection of ideas about behavior derived from external sources. Now i am confused , i remember talking in class and discussing how memory is an example of things obtained from one's conscious. Now if this is true than wouldn't that be more closley related to the superego?, this confuses me becasue we learned how the Ego mainly deals with the "outer world" which would be where one's memory captures the conscious.
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I must admit that I am not knowledgeable about Freudian theory of memory specifically. Gurdjieff, a slightly younger contemporary of (and a VERY different philosopher than) Freud, argued that we remember only that of which we are conscious. But this is not Freud's theory, so far as I know. Freud relies on the notion that our memories are largely unconscious: they have been, as it were "stuffed down in" the self. No reason here to be confused, unless you try to make all these different theories into one massive theory. That will not work -- at any rate, not easily.
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