Freudian Thinking

Freudian Thinking. Sigmund Freud, founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology, postulated that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions that it makes on the basis of psychological drives.

The id, ego, and super-ego are three aspects of the mind Freud believed to comprise a person’s personality. Freud believed people are “simply actors in the drama of [their] own minds, pushed by desire, pulled by coincidence. Underneath the surface, our personalities represent the power struggle going on deep within us.”