PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dreamwork, Defence Mechanisms, Reaction Formation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

In the 5 stages, freud believed that people could become fixed (fixation) at a particular stage: Reason of fixation: not being gratified enough or gratified too much. Feelings of frustration and anxiety will make you go back to the earlier stages (ex. Something that we do to protect yourself from feelings of anxiety. Is produced by fear that the ego will not have adequate control over the id and that the id impulses will surface. Defense mechanism use up some id energy (channeled off= weaker= less of a battle between id and ego) Defense mechanisms are unconscious, provides an indirect release of id energy, when the id energy is released, the neurotic anxiety is reduced. Sometimes the ego is temporarily off- guard and the id desires slip out in symbolic form (mispronunciation, slip of the pen, misperception, omitting words) Freud believed that dreams are the window to the unconscious.