PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Psychological Repression, Erogenous Zone, Castration Anxiety
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Isn t real; it has no physical existence. It is an idea, an abstract concept that we use because it seems to capture something important about our experiences, they help us organize and understand experiences. The hippocrates approach to personality was that he believed in four. Humours : blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Personality was based on the balance of these four humours. Example: melan (for black) and cholic (for bile) meant that someone of this personality types is often sad and wistful. Sees personality as generated by internal psychic structures in your mind, and the way they interact with each other, determine how we feel and behave. Freud believes that the way you go through stages in your life as a child, will ultimately have an impact on your adulthood. Made up of the id, ego and superego. These three levels is the major motivating forces in humans.
