topographic theory of mind

is the distinguishing of mental events according to their accessibility to conscious awareness.

Freud's early ideas about distinguishing mental events according to their accessibility to conscious awareness. This can be compared with his still earlier 'economic model' (which saw the mind as an energy system and posited that libidinal energy gets pent-up due to anxiety [or disease]. later 'Structural theory of the Mind' (1920) which introduced the Id, Ego, and Superego (Es, Ich, Über-Ich ) which, in contrast to the topological model, focuses on the symbolic rather than physical character of the mind.

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topographic theory of mind