PSYA02H3 Lecture : Chapter 14 (Personality) Notes
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Freud was the first to claim that what we do is often irrational and that the reasons for our behaviour are seldom conscious. The mind, to freud, was a battleground for the warring factions of instinct, reason, and conscience; the term psychodynamic is this. Read the life story of freud if it interests you and that anna o. patient (pg 465). From his studies, freud concluded that all human behaviour is motivated by instinctual drives which, when activated, supply psychic energy. this energy is aversive, because the nervous system seeks a state of quiet equilibrium. If something prevents the psychic energy cause by activation of a drive from being discharged, psychological disturbances will result. Freud believed that instinctual drives are t riggered by events in a person"s life. Many events don"t have much effect, but traumatic events may seriously threaten the desired state of psychic energy equilibrium. During a traumatic event, a person may hide their true emotions.
