PSYC2014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Freud'S Seduction Theory, Spiral Bevel Gear, Psychoanalysis
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Intra-psychic conflict opposition of incompatible forces within the individual thought. Drive theories: his definition the physical representative of the stimuli originating from within the organism and reaching the mind, we are lived by our instincts. Psyc 2014 - lecture series 2: drive presses for expression by its mental pressure as a fantasy. First drive theory 1910: consisted of 2 groups of drives, ego preservation self preservation, sex drive, ego preservative drives are necessary for survival. If parents weren"t involved sex drive could be met but if they weren"t self-preservation wouldn"t = intra psychic conflict: socialisation of children is seen as setting of these drives against each other. Metapsychology: unconscious processes: unconscious processes = conception is one of which we aren"t aware but the existence of something we are ready to admit on account of other proofs/signs, dynamic unconscious = material consciously repressed.
