This is a sequence of animations broken into six parts on the topic of Freud's View of Personality Structure.

1. Part 1 of 6:
2. The on-screen text says "Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain personality by focusing on the influence of early childhood experiences, unconscious conflicts, and sexual urges. Perhaps Freud’s most enduring insight was his recognition of how unconscious forces can influence behavior. He contrasted the unconscious with the conscious and preconscious, creating three levels of awareness."
3. Part 2 of 6:
4. The on-screen text says "Freud’s conception of the mind is often compared to an iceberg that has most of its mass hidden beneath the water’s surface. He saw the unconscious as the huge mass below the surface that is much larger than the conscious and preconscious. You can select each area in the iceberg to learn more about Freud's levels of awareness. The conscious consists of whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time. For example, at this moment your conscious may include the train of thought in this text and a dim awareness that you’re beginning to get hungry. The preconscious contains material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved. Examples might include your middle name or what you had for dinner last night. The unconscious contains difficult-to-retrieve feelings, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior. Examples might include a forgotten trauma from childhood, hidden feelings of hostility toward a parent, and repressed sexual desires."
5. Part 3 of 6:
6. The on-screen text says "Freud divided personality structure into three components: the id, the ego, and the superego. He proposed that the ego and superego operate at all three levels of awareness. In contrast, the id is entirely unconscious, expressing its urges at a conscious level through the ego."
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8. The on-screen text says "The id is the instinctive component of personality that houses the raw biological urges to eat, sleep, defecate, copulate, and so on. The id operates according to the pleasure principle, which demands immediate gratification of its urges. The id engages in primary-process thinking, which is primitive, illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented."
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10. The on-screen text says "The ego is the decision-making component of personality that mediates between the id, with its forceful desires for immediate satisfaction, and the external social world, with its expectations regarding suitable behavior. The ego is guided by the reality principle, which seeks to delay gratification of the id’s urges until appropriate outlets and situations can be found. The ego engages in secondary-process thinking, which is relatively rational and realistic."
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12. The on-screen text says "The superego is the moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong. Throughout their lives people receive training about what constitutes good and bad behavior, and many moral norms are eventually internalized. In some people, the superego can become irrationally demanding in its striving for moral perfection, so they become plagued by excessive feelings of guilt."