<P> In mate selection psychology, psychodynamics is defined as the study of the forces, motives, and energy generated by the deepest of human needs . </P> <P> In general, psychodynamics studies the transformations and exchanges of "psychic energy" within the personality . A focus in psychodynamics is the connection between the energetics of emotional states in the Id, ego and super-ego as they relate to early childhood developments and processes . At the heart of psychological processes, according to Freud, is the ego, which he envisions as battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world . The id is the unconscious reservoir of libido, the psychic energy that fuels instincts and psychic processes . The ego serves as the general manager of personality, making decisions regarding the pleasures that will be pursued at the id's demand, the person's safety requirements, and the moral dictates of the superego that will be followed . The superego refers to the repository of an individual's moral values, divided into the conscience - the internalization of a society's rules and regulations - and the ego - ideal - the internalization of one's goals . Hence, the basic psychodynamic model focuses on the dynamic interactions between the id, ego, and superego . Psychodynamics, subsequently, attempts to explain or interpret behaviour or mental states in terms of innate emotional forces or processes . </P> <P> Freud used the term psychodynamics to describe the processes of the mind as flows of psychological energy (libido) in an organically complex brain . The idea for this came from his first year adviser, Ernst von Brücke at the University of Vienna, who held the view that all living organisms, including humans, are basically energy - systems to which the principle of the conservation of energy applies . This principle states that "the total amount of energy in any given physical system is always constant, that energy quanta can be changed but not annihilated, and that consequently when energy is moved from one part of the system, it must reappear in another part ." This principle is at the very root of Freud's ideas, whereby libido, which is primarily seen as sexual energy, is transformed into other behaviours . However, it is now clear that the term energy in physics means something quite different from the term energy in relation to mental functioning . </P> <P> Psychodynamics was initially further developed by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Melanie Klein . By the mid-1940s and into the 1950s, the general application of the "psychodynamic theory" had been well established . </P>

I founded psychoanalysis and the theory of psychodynamic thinking