This article presents the clinical work with an ecclesiogenic neurosis and the difficulties encountered by the therapists working with very religious patients. In contrast to the few existing studies of this topic, the Author emphasizes the necessity to take into account the difference between the conscience and the superego, if the therapy is to be effective. The article focuses on the present...

Self-affirmation is known to reduce defensive psychological responses to ego threats. The current experiment tested the hypothesis that self-affirmation reduces physiological responses to a form of ego threat-interpersonal evaluation. Participants wrote an essay and received either neutral or insulting evaluative feedback about their essay, ostensibly from another participant. Then participants...

Different people make different responses when they face a frustrating situation: some punish others (extrapunitive), while others punish themselves (intropunitive). Few studies have investigated the neural structures that differentiate extrapunitive and intropunitive individuals. The present fMRI study explored these neural structures using two different frustrating situations: an ego-blocking...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapakan rahasia keluarga dalam kepribadian tokoh utama novel Fakta Diurai Waktu karya Rudi Agus Hartanto ditinjau melalui perspektif psikoanalisis dengan aspek id, ego, dan superego. menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif sumber data waktu terbitan Sirus Media, cetakan pertama tahun 2021 jumlah halaman 266. Data yang diambil dari berupa kutipan-kutipan ti...

psychological criticism is considered as a new field in literary criticism, that critic, review and analyzes the literary work therein based on principles of psychology. the present study, address to the personality psychology criticism of mutanabbi poetry as battle, conflict, and tension within three levels of personality: id, ego and superego. the objectives of this paper include: 1-avoid fro...

Theoretical, psychoanalytical constructs referring to the unconscious, the superego, and id, enjoy an autonomy within the I. As such, this study contemplates the discussion of these foreign entities that inhabit the interior of the I, producing an effect of foreignness. In the first section, I will develop a reflection on the state of foreignness of the unconscious. I will begin with an analogy...

In our paper we discuss the existence of narcissism as instinct; a Mendelian trait that can be inherited from either parent. This instinct is an essential component of five different personalities in our model and these personalities can be classified into two groups: Narcissistic and Obsessive. How these personalities manifest in individuals and how the individual interacts with the healthcare...