What does Freud think is the principle of self-pursuit?

Ego, which means "ego" in German, is the part where you can consciously think, feel, judge or remember. The role of the ego is to satisfy the urge to pursue the "ID" while protecting the whole body from harm. It follows the principle of realism and serves itself.

He initiated a new field of subconscious research, promoted the development of dynamic psychology, personality psychology and abnormal psychology, laid a new foundation for modern medical model, and provided an important theoretical pillar for western humanities in the 20th century.

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Freud's psychoanalysis initiated the study of subconscious psychology, created new fields of personality psychology, dynamic psychology and abnormal psychology, promoted the development of self-psychology, and influenced many treatment methods in the field of psychotherapy later.

Before psychoanalytic psychology, traditional psychology took consciousness as the research object except behaviorism. Although some scholars have discussed the subconscious in history, the only psychological system that really takes the subconscious as the research object is psychoanalytic psychology. Freud broke the tradition of rationalism, affirmed the role of irrational factors in behavior and created a system of subconscious psychology.