This study comparatively investigated the sub components of both
Freud's structural theory of personality and a confucian, Yi Yi's theory of
mind, with including confucians' mind theories in Chosun Dynasty, in mind
theories in arts psychotherapy.
Conclusions from this study are that the sub components of Freud's
structural theory of personality, that is, id, ego, and superego have similar
functions and conceptual structures with iyog(人慾), ui(意), and cholri(天理),
the sub components of Yi Yi's theory of mind, respectively, while those
theories have some different perspectives such as theories' goals, sub
components' origins, conscious and unconscious aspects. It was discussed
that both ego and ui(意) can be regarded as executive control system, that
speech has an important role to control thoughts and behaviors in both ego
and ui(意), that Yi Yi's theory of mind could be regarded as three
dimensional aspects like Freud's structural theory of personality, and that our
attention to both theories help clinical practices in applied psychology
including arts psychotherapy.