Healing Mankind with Innocent Id, Strong Ego, and Compassionate Superego

Abstract

Man is the most complex and elusive creature in the living world. For this reason, different views have been put forward by many scientists and philosophers in evaluating and understanding human beings. Basically, like all living things, the human is a creature consisting of molecules, cells and tissues, but also with successes, failures and defects, and has dreams and visions of his own. Human beings are the only creatures on earth that try to establish superiority over the environment in which they live, modify them according to their own needs, thus minimizing the differential pressure of natural selection. Human is in an unlimited need to know, learn and research. Although human is the most intelligent and talented creatures in the world with unlimited power to create, develop and change, he/she is actually a living being and a part of the world in which he/she lives. One of the aspects that makes human beings different from other living things is the awareness that they have continuity from the past to the future. The life strategy that distinguishes him/her from other living things is to determine his/her life consciously, not instinctively. Freud contributed to the clarification of human behaviours by creating the id, ego, and superego models. According to him, the id represents impulsivity and aggression, the ego represents reality, and the superego represents punishment, morality, and conscience. In this review, it is aimed to develop suggestions for the functionality of id, ego and superego functions for the human to understand, realize and develop oneself. Keywords: id, ego, superego, mankind

Keywords

• Id
• ego
• superego
• mankind

Masum Id, Güçlü/Sağlam Ego ve Şefkatli Superego ile İnsanoğlunu İyileştirmek

Abstract

İnsan, yaşayan dünyadaki en karmaşık ve anlaşılması zor yaratıktır. Bu nedenle insanı değerlendirmede ve anlamada birçok bilim adamı ve filozof tarafından farklı görüşler ileri sürülmüştür. Temelde tüm canlılar gibi insan da moleküllerden, hücrelerden ve dokulardan oluşan, başarıları, başarısızlıkları ve kusurları olan, kendine ait hayalleri ve vizyonları olan bir yaratıktır. İnsan, yaşadığı çevre üzerinde üstünlük kurmaya çalışan, onları kendi ihtiyaçlarına göre değiştiren, böylece doğal seçilimin farklı baskılarını en aza indiren yeryüzündeki tek varlıktır. İnsan sınırsız bir bilme, öğrenme ve araştırma ihtiyacı içindedir. İnsan, sınırsız yaratma, gelişme ve değişme gücüne sahip dünyanın en zeki ve yetenekli varlığı olmasına rağmen, içinde yaşadığı dünyanın bir parçasıdır. İnsanı diğer canlılardan farklı kılan yönlerden biri de geçmişten geleceğe sürekliliği olduğunun bilincidir. Onu diğer canlılardan ayıran yaşam stratejisi içgüdüsel olarak değil bilinçli olarak hayatını belirlemesidir. Freud, id, ego ve süperego modellerini yaratarak insan davranışlarının açıklığa kavuşturulmasına katkıda bulunmuştur. Ona göre id dürtüselliği ve saldırganlığı, ego gerçeği, süperego ise cezayı, ahlakı ve vicdanı temsil eder. Bu derlemede, id, ego ve süperego işlevlerinin insanın kendini anlaması, farkındalığını arttırması ve kendini geliştirmesi için işlevselliğine yönelik öneriler geliştirilmesi amaçlanmıştır.

Keywords

• Ego
• Süperego
• İnsanoğlu

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