... all these levels are active at all times and that we are very much affected by what lies in our mind at these levels. He stated that the most important of the three was the unconscious. Freud believed that there were two innate drives that play a big role in everything we do and those are; * Eros- the urge to carry on the species and reproduce, the sexual instincts * Thanatos- the urge to protect ourselves as individuals' mainly through aggression. His theory states that these drives are held or demanded of by one of the three aspects of personality; the id, ego and super ego. The Id is in the unconscious mind and holds the innate drives stated above, Freud believed this was with us from birth and works on an instant gratification principle e.g. in babies the Id will demand to be nourished if this need ...

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