PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Erogenous Zone

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Personality is our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting: psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and con icts; 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. Free association: a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Personality structure: freud believed that human personality (including its emotions and strivings) arises from a con ict between impulse and restraints. Id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate grati cation.