MGTA36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reality Principle, Psychoanalytic Theory, Oedipus Complex
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The psychiatrist theory begins with a consideration of how the mind registers the body"s biological needs and turns them into motivated drives or forces. Freud refers to says that different drives come from different sources and seek satisfaction through different objects. Each person is different because one object that may provide someone with satisfaction may not do the same for another individual. Freud"s reality principle is the constant curving of drives according to possibility, law, and social convention. The unconscious in the mind is a mental screen behind which an individual does not consciously or clearly recognize. Repression is the involvement of a drive under the unconscious and it temporarily relieves the sense of frustration. Freud has a second topography involving the id, ego, and super ego. The id is the portion of the mind that is present from birth and the source of the drives regulated by the pleasure principles.
