PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Sigmund Freud, Oedipus Complex, Reality Principle

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Recall intrinsic value versus extrinsic value: how to recover intrinsic value. Try operating on the base of intrinsic value and find the intrinsic value in the activity. Psychoanalytic perspective [freud] focusing on the inner forces that interact to make us who we are. Free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Id [tasmanian devil]: contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual; and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.