PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Iceberg Theory, Electra Complex, Iceberg

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Victor Emerson

Document Summary

Personality an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. It is how one wants to behave: the superego the conscious. It is how one should behave: the ego the mediator between the id and the superego. Example: in relation to sex, the id wants to satisfy the sex drive and the superego wants to adhere to morals. Electra complex however it was a male dominated society)* Also touches on the idea that you"re jealous of your same-sex parent. *side note about women in society: hysteria is derived from the greek word for uterus, women had no way to get off because sex wasn"t foreplay focuses and masturbation was heavily frowned upon. It is thought that many women with hysteria just weren"t satisfied sexually. Alfred adler: believed sex wasn"t the driving thought, but that it was power, coined the term inferiority complex.