COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Psychosexual Development, Sophocles, Psychoanalysis

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Nick Baxter- Moore

Document Summary

Argues that the creation of civilization has resulted in the suppression of basic human instincts (storey, p. 91) As we become civilized we develop more and more codes which prevent us from behaving in an uncivilized manner. Those basic human instincts revealed by freud"s conception of three levels of the mind and his deconstruction of the elements of the psyche. Freud divides the minds into three levels. (iceberg) Knowledge shameful experiences, selfish needs, violent motives and unacceptable sexual desires. Three key elements: id, ego and super ego. Id is the primitive self, the inner self, driven by basic instincts and passions (the pleasure principle) The ego is the social self which evolves to allow one to exist in society (the reality principle), in part by mediating between id and super ego. The super-ego is the conscience, the representative of authority. To allow us to function in society, ego often has to repress basic instincts of the id.