PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hermann Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, Collective Unconscious

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

Document Summary

Free associaion: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no mater how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that atributes thoughts and acions to unconscious moives and conlicts; the techniques used in treaing 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, informaion processing of which we are unaware. Id: contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to saisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate graiicaion. Ego: the largely conscious, execuive part of personality that, according to freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. Operates on the reality principle, saying the id"s desires in ways that will realisically bring pleasure rather than pain.