Sigmund Freud.. seriously? seriously now?

We covered a bit of him in Psych this afternoon and I have come to the conclusion that he was a sex-crazed nutjob. The way Twinky (yes, that's my prof's nickname, it's on the syllabus) explained a bit of his theory was that we have three parts to our personality. The Id, the Superego, and the Ego. Our Id is like a two year old child making demands all the time, but instead of candy all it wants is sex. All the time. Our Superego is like our moral compass, its personality is kind of like an older adult. It tells our Id that it can't have what it wants. So what happens is kind of like this: *high pitched whiney voice* "I want sex! I want sex!" *lower voice* "you can't have any so if you know what's good for you you'll be quiet". Aaaand that's pretty much it in layman's terms. According to Freud that's what's going on in your subconscious. The third part of your personality is your Ego.. which is basically the conscious part of you. Your poor Ego has do deal with Id and Superego duking it out constantly. One of Twink's illustrations particularly caught my attention "Say you're hungry, you really want a chicken sandwich. Basic instinct, right? Well according to Freud you don't want a chicken sandwich at all.. you just want to get laid" Well.. that's my personal interpretation of what she said at least. There's a good chance you'll be hearing a lot more about him (and psych class for that matter) from me in the future