PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychosexual Development, Erogenous Zone, Oral Stage
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Behaviour unconscious forces + other forces. Accidents don"t exist, you"re just not aware of the purpose. Always in motion conflict defense (continual) sexuality, aggression, death (like to evolutionary theory) Metaphorical, symbolic: actions aren"t what they seem, symbols biological processes under mental ones (building up, tearing down) complex. Unconscious is where core operations of personality take place. Primary process: forming unconscious mental image of satisfaction. Wish fulfillment: having an image from primary process. Ego evolves from id expresses id"s impulses effectively. Superego last to develop develops while we resolves conflict in development. Conscience: holds image of undesirable behaviour punishes with guilt: 2. Introjection: incorporating values of parents/society all levels of consciousness goals: 1. Prevent (not postpone) some id impulses: 2. Tries to get ego to act morally (not necessarily rationally: 3. Freud"s ideas distorted by translation and cultural distance. Ego is sterile for sexual love to be true erotic pleasures, must have beauty + express soul longings.