Question

IV. The Psychodynamic Perspective ~1900 A. Explain what Freud meant by psychodynamics – the motives, or emotional forces, that control our behavior. Go beyond the text and use an example to illustrate. B. Freud likened the mind to an iceberg. Go beyond the text – why did he believe the mind is like an iceberg?

Answer 1

Freud said that an individual is a layered individual, who have many internal forces as brain is a complex machinery that has the propensity to motivate behavior. There are many components,. Especially the libido, that Freud used to help explain the motivators of behavior.

Freud compared the mind to an iceberg, saying thst there is the tip which is visible and the ice berg is taken to be the floating piece of ice above, but an iceberg, is veritably, vast underneath and is submerged and not visible to the naked eye, that is exactly our mind, which has the conscious, which is the tip, and the subconscious, which is the submerged and the hidden. This part harbors most of the inner turmoils and secrets