{"id":8267,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrapsychic_conflicts\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:51","slug":"intrapsychic_conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrapsychic_conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Intrapsychic conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionarydesire.wordpress.com\/a-cop-sleeps-in-each-of-us\/classical-freudian-psychoanalysis\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/revolutionarydesire.wordpress.com\/a-cop-sleeps-in-each-of-us\/classical-freudian-psychoanalysis\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classical Freudian psychoanalysis <\/a>assumes that mental disorder is due to contradictory and irreconcilable wishes and beliefs on the part of the sufferer. &nbsp;Freud and some of his followers conceived of these conflicts as generally occurring between instinctual (sexual and aggressive) desires, an awareness of the constraints of reality, and moral imperatives. &nbsp;Put in Freudian terminology, there is an emotional clash of, for example, the id versus the ego or the ego versus the superego. &nbsp;This internal conflict is difficult to resolve in the face of a pro-active id, and opposing superego, and a resulting weak ego. &nbsp;If the conflict is not resolved, then the person suffer the sense of helplessness and anxiety. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ego\">Ego<\/a>, <a href=\"id\">Id<\/a>, <a href=\"instinct_-2-\">Instinct (2)<\/a>, <a href=\"psychoanalysis\">Psychoanalysis<\/a>, <a href=\"superego\">Superego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical Freudian psychoanalysis assumes that mental disorder is due to contradictory and irreconcilable wishes and beliefs on the part of the sufferer. &nbsp;Freud and some of his followers conceived of these conflicts as generally occurring between instinctual (sexual and aggressive) desires, an awareness of the constraints of reality, and moral imperatives. &nbsp;Put in Freudian terminology, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrapsychic_conflicts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intrapsychic conflicts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}