Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Protoplasm, Iceberg, Anabolism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Insisted that the route to self-acceptance was honesty recognition of ones instinctual sexuality and aggressiveness: avoiding self deception was key, symptoms were simply the indirect and symbolic expressed of unacceptable impulses. Psychic structure: anatomy of the mind: f(cid:396)eud de(cid:448)eloped a(cid:374) (cid:862)a(cid:374)ato(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, led to structural view of personality, consisting of three institutions or mental agencies id, ego, superego, superego last to emerge, crystallizing some time. Id is in the unconscious, ego is predominantly conscious and super ego is a mix between conscious and unconscious processes. Id: unconscious, basic impulses; seeks immediate gratification regardless of consequences, ego, predominantly conscious, executive mediating between id impulses and superego inhibition; tests reality; seeks safety and survival, superego, both conscious and unconscious. Id is the mental agency or psychic structure that contains everything inherited, especially the instincts. Id is the innermost core of personality, and its closely linked to biological process.