PSYC 2740 Lecture 13: PSYCH 2740 LECTURE CHP 9

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Unconscious processes that play a role in regards to our personality. Psychic energy -> source of energy that fuels motivation (different dreams, fantasies, desires, behaviours) * this comes from instinct (provide energy): libido (life) - survival, reproduction, thanatos (death) - aggressive towards others, urges to be violent, towards yourself. > you can have both working together ex: food, and breaking down food while chewing. > view freud"s diagram - iceburg (concious is the biggest part) > concious (what you are thinking of right now) > pre conscious (you can retrieve stuff from memory like last night) > unconscious (try to keep it out of the mind so they are not traumatic, lash out at someone, sexual aggression) Id - primitive and dominant in infancy, drives all natures. Operates on the pleasure principle (do that urge right away without waiting) Not realistic because it operates with the primary process principle (nothing in reality)