PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Penis Envy, Reaction Formation, Gender Identity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Freud: personality: relative strengths of the id, ego, superego use of defense mechanisms, traits that develop because of fixations. Unconscious strategies for alleviating anxiety distortions of reality. Repression (bury down ) blocking of anxiety laden thoughts, memories or urges. Regression responding to a threatening situation in an immature manner. Reaction formation replacing an anxiety laden thought/behaviour with the opposite thought/behaviour. Projection attri(cid:271)uti(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) u(cid:374)desira(cid:271)le thoughts or (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours to other. Rationalization creating explanations for undesirable thoughts or behaviours. Displacement redirecting sexual or aggressive feeling towards a more appropriate target. Denial refusing to believe or perceive painful realities. Personality structures of the id, ego, superego. The importance of early experiences in the shaping of personality. Greater importance to the conscious mind less deterministic. Less importance to sex and aggression more to social motives. Sexual or pleasure seeking is not the primary motive. The primary motive is a need for superiority.