PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anna Freud, Oedipus Complex, Drive Theory
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Emphasis on ego function (ego autonomy) and neutralization: wrath of superego, threat of drives, dangers of outside world. Conflict free sphere: ego function is independent of id. Average expectable environment: born with capacity to adapt to environment which leads to healthy life. Normal autism: month after birth, cannot differentiate between self and the mother. Normal symbiosis: second month, infant becomes increasingly aware of mom as part of themselves. Mahler 4 subphases of separation and individual: differentiation and body image: tolerates physical distance from mom, practicing: learns to walk, rapprochement: relationship is ambivalent, object constancy and individuality: internalizes positive mother image. Freud"s ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al health (cid:448)ersio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d ego"s adaptatio(cid:374) to e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Brenner compromise formations: pressure of the drives, push of the superego, ego"s (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) to adapt to realit(cid:455, ego"s (cid:374)eed to a(cid:448)oid depressio(cid:374)/a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) Emphasize quality of very early stages of life and its environment. Goals: to make unconscious conscious and improve (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s adaptatio(cid:374) to (cid:449)orld.
