PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Oedipus Complex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. How you are going to think, feel and act. Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspectives on personality: personality develops in a dynamic interplay between conscious and unconscious processes (changing over time) The struggle of inner forces that interact to make us who we are. Conscious vs unconscious (angel vs devil on your shoulder is best way to describe personality in this sense) Change of perspective: physical symptoms could be caused by purely psychological factors (e. g. numb arm when nothing is actually wrong with it) Formulated a theory of the structure of human personality and its development- The theory and his therapeutic technique were named psychoanalysis. Then the ego develops(reality principle), negotiates the demands of the id with reality, and. Around 4 or 5, the child develops superego, a conscience internalized from parents and. The unconscious as a reservoir of thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories that are hidden from awareness.