POL SCI 164A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Authoritarian Personality, Reaction Formation, Authoritarianism
9 Mar 2018
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Certain collections of traits authoritarian personality type 1) support for fascism 2) strong authoritarian government and 3) ethnocentrism. Innate drives and impulses (usually sexual and aggressive) Ego alien present (acknowledge urges) to not present (no acknowledgement) Conscience, influenced by upbringing, sense of right and wrong, good and bad, mechanisms for psychological reward and punishment. The executive, reasoning/thinking/deciding/choosing self, tries to deal with conflict between id and superego. Hard time managing id and superego: weak to strong. Repression: don"t allow id impulses into conscious awareness. Reaction formation: id impulses are experienced as their opposite consciously. Transference: feelings toward one person are shifted towards a larger group or other group toward one person. Projection: own id impulses or false shortcomings as determined by. Projection: own id impulses or false shortcomings as determined by superego are projected onto others, especially outgroups. Sublimation: id impulses are turned into socially acceptable outlets.
