PSY 2403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Teleology, Countertransference, Falsifiability

• School: University of Oklahoma
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2403
• Professor: Dr.Eugenia Cox- Fuenzalida

Document Summary

Physiological and psychic energy can be transformed into other: sexual instinct- life instinct, destructive instinct- death instinct. Anxiety: signal to ego of danger and requires a response, realistic, neurotic, moral. Different forms of anxiety: realistic anxiety- ex car crash, seeing a cop after doing something illegal, neurotic anxiety- feeling like your id is going to take over and you"re going be punished by the outside. Getting gin trouble by something real or imagined: moral anxiety- something that you are going to punish yourself for. Defense mechanisms: ego unable to handle tension, tension reducers. Distort reality: ego uses restraining forces to effect repression. Repression- ego blocking a wish or desire from being consciously entertained. Projection- attributing an unconscious impulse, attitude or behavior to someone else. Reaction formation- expressing an impulse by its opposite (someone likes pornography, they become anti-pornography president on campus) Regression- returning to an earlier from of expressing an impulse. (nail biting, getting drunk)