PSY 3132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reaction Formation, Oedipus Complex, Rein

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3132
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

The psychoanalytical paradigm unconscious conflicts in the indiv. Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic paradigm was developed by frued. it means that psychopathology result from. Frued divided the mind into 3 principal parts: id, ego and superego. 1) the id is present at birth and is the part of the mind that accounts for all the energy needed to run the psyche. It comprises the basic urges for food, water, elimination, warmth, affection and sex. Trained as a neurologist freud saw the source of all the ids energy as biological. Only later at the infant develops is the energy which freud called libido converted into psychic energy all of it unconscious below the level of awareness. The id seeks immediate gratification and operates according to the pleasure principle. When the id is not satisfied tension is produced and the id strives to eliminate this tension. Another means of obtaining gratification is primary process thinking generating images in essence fantasies of what is desired.