PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Electra Complex, Anna Freud, Video Lesson
17 Sep 2013
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Personality has no physical existence; it is an idea, an abstract concept that we use because it seems to. Psych 1x03 express or capture something important about our experiences: hypothetical constructs . The type approach: assumes that there are a small umber of distinct personality types, initially proposed by hippocrates, greek physician, dominant in western thinking until 16th and 17th centuries, human body was made of four humors . Black bile: personality was determined based on the balance of these four humors. Personality is generated by internal psychic structures or processes. The characteristics of internal structures in your mind and the way they interact with each other, determine how we feel and behave. Many of these structures are unconscious so we are often unaware of many important aspects of our personality. Three personality structures: id, ego, superego. The struggle among conscious and unconscious influences represented among these three levels is the major motivating forces in humans.
