PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Cathexis
10 Dec 2017
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Notions of motivation: hedonism, we live exist to gain pleasure. Id: present at birth, translate need into drive, kids only have id, they want things when they want. Ex: marshmallow experiment: you need oxygen, food, vitamins, but a drive is a psychological sense of want and desire, pleasure principle- if it feels good do it now, completely in unconscious mind, disadvantages. Id doesn"t plan: has no dire(cid:272)t (cid:272)onta(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith outside (cid:449)orld, doesn"t see, hear or taste. It only has access to memories: doesn"t kno(cid:449) ho(cid:449) outside (cid:449)orld (cid:449)orks (cid:894)that"s (cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies tou(cid:272)h hot sto(cid:448)es(cid:895, no sense of time, only present moment, no future no past. Primary process : first way in which people gain gratification. Need food, but it cant get food cant do anything. Looking for an image associated with satisfaction of hunger, (food), invest libido in holding onto, examining the image. The investment (cathexis) of libido into images by thinking and fantasizing.
