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HCM 433 MANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.pdf

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a) The Id is the unit that contains an individual’s basic desires, it is an instinctual irrational<br />

energy that is present at birth. It functions by seeking pleasure irrespective of who is hurt.<br />

b) The super-Ego opposes the Id; it can be equated to conscience. It represents the age of<br />

recognition of moral laws and constraints within the society as interpreted to him by the<br />

parents and enforced by a system of reward and punishment. The unit tries to place<br />

restriction on pleasure seeking by the children and helped him to imbibe the culture of<br />

discipline, good behaviour and other good attitudes etc.<br />

c) The Ego is a controlling unit. It is reality principle which helps the child to be aware of the<br />

world around him. It deals with both the aggressive desires of the Id and the repressive<br />

forces of the super-ego.<br />

It gives the child the ability to distinguish between the things of the mind and the external<br />

world with respect to the super-ego. It therefore allows the child to plan and reason and<br />

behaves like people around, it is a controlling device. So Freud argued that what an<br />

individual becomes as an adult depends on how well the ego is able to strive the balance<br />

between the constantly conflicting Id (pleasure seeking unit of man) and the super-ego (the<br />

restriction imposing and repressing unit of man).<br />

3.3.1 Freudian Development Stages<br />

This psycho-analytical theory of personality ideas are further explained in Freudian developmental<br />

stages. Freud believes the individual’s pass through a sequence of human development, that as<br />

individuals develop from infancy to adulthood, he is punctuated by developments arising at certain<br />

stage and that with normal development, an individual will move from one stage to another but<br />

that the most important and critical to the individual are the ages 0 to 13 years. During this period<br />

the individuals passes through a number of critical experiences fixation (denial or prolonged stay<br />

or the inability of the ego to restore normalcy between the Id & the Super-ego). Fixation implies<br />

that the energy will stay on and the experience if it’s not resolved will cause problems in adult life.<br />

1. Oral Stage: Corresponds with the age (0 – 1year) during this time the infant derive<br />

pleasure around the region of the mouth precisely of the lips where the libido is first<br />

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