KHA112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erich Fromm, Tantrum, Oedipus Complex
30 Jun 2018
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Psychology B week 6: Psychodynamic theories
Relatively stable of enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behavior
that are expressed in different circumstances
- personality changes but the way you express your personality differs
othe expression, behavior associated with personality have changes
opersonality in itself is stable once you reach adulthood
- Three main components:
oDistinctiveness: how much personality distinguishes you as a person
How distinct are your extraversion traits separate from you
openness
oConsistency: the way you express your personality, are you always the
same or are there fluctuations depending on where you are or who you
are with
oBehaviour: what others see of a persons personality
We pay attention to the way they; use their voice, gestures,
non-verbal cues, but we cant see personality
- Talking about personality as a social construct, as it is experienced in
everyday life
- Want to understand the idea of personality beyond the individual; make
predications and assertions and general idea about people with certain traits
and what they would behave like
oFrom this, want to be able to assess individual differences
oNo two people with extraversion are exactly the same
There are four different approaches to personality:
- Psychodynamics: Freud’s Personality Topographic model
oUnconscious forces, drives and motivation
oPsychological forces have a goal, target and intensity. When these are
imbalance, or the balance that shapes these things, is what is
personality
Three types of mental processes:
Conscious: rational, makes sense and are logical, goal
directed, we are aware of them
oConscious thought patterns driving my behavior
which are an expression of my personality
Preconscious: could become conscious at an given time,
based on knowledge
oJust under the water’s edge of the iceberg; could
emerge at any minute
oThought processes become triggered and come
to surface
oGeneral knowledge; always there but not always
being used
Unconscious: irrational, not based on logic, represses
and inaccessible
oStill plays a role in driving behavior
oMuch stronger unconscious
Balance between these levels on consciousness shape
our personality
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Opposing motives between these levels leads to ambivalence
Must compromise
oCriticism: vague and ambiguous
How can we test this and know they are driving our personality
Freud’s Drive (Instinct) Model: your behaviour is always an
expression of personality, that human behaviour is motivated
by two drives
Sexual drive:
oLibido: pleasure seeking behaviours
oStages of psychosexual development: fixed
progression of change from stages, the rate at
which people move through stages varies
oLinked with theories of cognitive development
(no guarantee you will go through every stages)
oLinking to other accepted psychological theories
to be accepted
oStages:
Oral stage: dependency
Anal: ORDERLINESS
Phallic: identification with parents
Latency: sublimation of sexual and
aggressive impulses
Aware of sexuality but have to
repress it
Genital: mature sexuality and
relationships
oTalks about a child’s quest for enjoyment and
pleasure and the social limitations that in hinge
that, make it harder to gain pleasure
oForced to comply to society, this process
determines what we express or suppress
Aggressive drive:
Structural model: morality governs behavior and the expression
of our personality
ID: biological component over which you do not have
awareness or control
oPleasure principle is guiding behavior, not social
or moral component
oDevil shoulder: drives maladaptive behaviour
EGO: Psychological component:
oIn the conscious thought, shaped by pre-
conscious thought to a degree
oAbout self-awareness and censorship
SUPER-EGO: overarching both ID and EGO
oMoral and social rules and expectations further
shape the expression of ego and ID
oVoice of reason
oAngel shoulder
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Document Summary
Three main components: distinctiveness: how much personality distinguishes you as a person. We pay attention to the way they; use their voice, gestures, non-verbal cues, but we cant see personality. Talking about personality as a social construct, as it is experienced in everyday life. Psychodynamics: freud"s personality topographic model: unconscious forces, drives and motivation, psychological forces have a goal, target and intensity. When these are imbalance, or the balance that shapes these things, is what is personality. Conscious: rational, makes sense and are logical, goal directed, we are aware of them: conscious thought patterns driving my behavior which are an expression of my personality. Unconscious: irrational, not based on logic, represses and inaccessible: still plays a role in driving behavior, much stronger unconscious. Balance between these levels on consciousness shape our personality. Opposing motives between these levels leads to ambivalence. Must compromise: criticism: vague and ambiguous. How can we test this and know they are driving our personality.
