Narrator: In 1905 Freud wrote a series of essays on sexuality. He stated plainly that sex — or the libido — drives our desires and impulses, whether we know it or not. And that this drive is ...

Created with Sketch. Freud created a model of the mind featuring three parts: the id, ego, and superego. The id was the seat of primitive drives, including sexual and aggressive impulses.

Freud’s own model of consciousness – the id, ego and superego, which represent different parts of our minds, including animal drives as well as our personalities and moral compasses – hasn ...

Narrator: Freud saw human life drawn between two powerful and opposing forces: the life force on the one hand and on the other, the death instinct, the destroying drive. Freud: Let us look away ...