PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erogenous Zone, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Dream Interpretation
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Personality: is our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. 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. Id: 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. Superego: the part of personality that, according to freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. Phalic stage: oedipus complex, electra complex, if you can"t beat em, join em (identification). All defense mechanism function indirectly and unconsciously. First, they placed more emphasis on the conscious mind"s role in interpreting experience and in coping with the environment. Second, they doubted that sex and aggression were all - consuming motivations.
